Daylight Calendar ICS
This is a dynamically generated .ics calendar that you can host and subscribe to in Google Calendar, iCal, or other calendar software.
Not only will it provide an event each day with the appropriate sunrise and sunset time, it will show the length of the day in hours/minutes as well as in a percent (of 24 hours) and the solar noon for that day. It will also give a percentile compared to the shortest and longest days of the year!
Options
- Find your geo coordinates
- Find your GMT offset
- Determine which zenith setting you prefer
- Default:
90.83
- Civil Twilight:
96
- Conventionally used to signify twilight
- Nautical Twilight:
102
- The point at which the horizon stops being visible at sea
- Astronomical Twilight:
108
- The point when Sun stops being a source of any illumination
- Default:
Instructions
- Upload
daylight.php
and/orsun.php
to your server (or skip this step and use the one hosted on gearside.com) - Point your calendar to the file and use query parameters for the options above.
- Latitude:
lat
- Longitude:
lng
- GMT:
gmt
- Zenith:
z
- Year:
year
- Event types (
sun.php
only):actual
civil
nautical
astronomical
all
- Latitude:
Use ?debug
to directly view the calendar file in a browser with events more easily readable. Be sure not to use ?debug
when subscribing to your calendar as it does not declare itself as an .ics file with that parameter present.
Examples
Basic
https://gearside.com/calendars/daylight.php?lat=43.1234&lng=-76.1234&gmt=-5
https://gearside.com/calendars/sun.php?lat=43.1234&lng=-76.1234&gmt=-5&all
Advanced
https://gearside.com/calendars/daylight.php?lat=43.1234&lng=-76.1234&gmt=-5&z=108
Notes
Calendar software caches remote .ics files (like this one), so when replacing it you can "bust" the cache by adding another query parameter of random characters such as &sdfgsfd
.