WMSUN(1)

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💖 WMSUN 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about WMSUN, from the General Commands Manual — aka the Dockable WindowMaker SunRise/SunSet App. yes she's a dockable WindowMaker app and yes she tells you when the sun is doing its thing. main character energy fr fr 🌅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wmsun [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give her some options, she gives you the sun. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, wmSun displays the current day's Sun Rise and Set Times. iconic. legendary. not me checking when golden hour is 💅

but listen — the way this works is you must enter your Latitude and Longitude correctly for it to work. like, correctly correctly. no cap. get those numbers right or she's just gonna be out here lying to you and nobody wants that 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — Display list of command-line options. the classic "help me" button, she ate 💅
  • -display <display> — Use an alternate X Display. wanna hang out on a different display? say less 🖥️
  • -geometry <geometry> — Set window geometry. where she sits, how big she is. her personal space fr 🦋
  • -lat <Latitude> — Set latitude of observer. that's you. you're the observer. put your latitude here 🌍
  • -lon <Longitude> — Set longitude of observer. and this one's your longitude. yes both, you need both, don't skip 💀
  • -td <UT - LT> — Set the difference between UT and LT. lowkey the useful one: it's perfect when you wanna show the Sunrise/Sunset at a remote lat/lon without resetting your clock. obsessed 😌
  • -12 — Use 12-hour clock. for the girlies who don't do military time 🕛
  • -date <yyyymmdd> — Set the date to show sunrise/sunset for. time travel but make it a date string ✨

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

wmsun -lon 106.3 -lat 35.9

this would display rise/set times at Los Alamos in local time. slay 🏔️

wmsun -lat 19.58 -lon 155.92 -td 10

this would display rise/set times in Kona, Hawaii in local time (in winter -- you need to take into account daylight savings at other times of the year). 🌺 note that winter caveat bestie, DST will absolutely jump out and humble you 🙈

💀 BUGS 💀

Who knows? (Let me know if you find any).

literally the most honest bug section in the entire manual. she said "idk, you tell me" 😭😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Michael G. Henderson <mghenderson@lanl.gov> — the icon, the legend, the moment 💜

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was WMSUN(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 5 January 1999. yes, 1999. she's vintage. she's timeless. she's still telling you when the sun sets 🌇💅✨

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