moonphases - display moon phases for a given period
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Description
moonphases is a small program that displays the various moon phases (new, first, full, third,
specifically) for the given period, delimited by start and end.
Dates are parsed by pyEphem as ISO-8601-like timestamps (YYYY-MM-DDHH:MM:SS), in the UTC timezone. Dates
are shown in the local timezone, use the TZ environment variable to change.
Environment
TZ Default timezone.
Examples
moonphases
Displays the next 30 days.
$ moonphases
2018-12-07 02:20:21 new
2018-12-15 06:49:15 first
2018-12-22 12:48:35 full
2018-12-29 04:34:18 third
moonphases2018-12-01
Moon phases for december 2018, same as above.
moonphases20192020
Moon phases for all of 2019.
Name
moonphases - display moon phases for a given period
Options
start start date, default now.
end end date, default next30days.
See Also
tzselect(8) tzfile(5) undertime(1) Timezones list ⟨https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones⟩ PyEphem home page ⟨https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/⟩ 2018 UNDERTIME(1)
Synopsis
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