5 May 2012 14:03
Moon Phases and Public Holidays for Queensland, Australia
Hi, I use Remind with rem2html to publish a web calendar on my server so I have web access to it. At the moment the web calendar is the only way I read my reminders. I've just spent an hour and a half struggling with getting the moon phases to display on the calendar, and finally got it right. Apologies if this is considered trivially easy, but I thought I'd post it here because I couldn't find these instructions anywhere else. I'm also posting my Remind commands to display public holidays in Queensland, Australia. The commands include the actual day of the event, and the public holiday for that day when the holiday is moved to a weekday to ensure a long weekend. Please feel free to include these in the wiki if they are useful. (I lifted the Easter calcuations from the wiki, too) David Jackmanson #Moon Phases SET newmoondate = [moondate(0)] IF today() == newmoondate MSG New Moon ENDIF SET firstquartermoondate = [moondate(1)] IF today() == firstquartermoondate(Continue reading)
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