Sunrise/sunset in LUA

[manjh]

Can I detect Sunrise and Sunset in a LUA script? I realize it is easy in Blockly, but I can't figure it out in LUA.

I found timeofday['SunriseInMinutes'] and timeofday['SunsetInMinutes'], but how do I get the time of day in minutes to compare with?

[jvdz]

Something like this:

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minutesnow = timenow.min + timenow.hour * 60
if (minutesnow == timeofday['SunsetInMinutes']+2) then
   -- this runs 2 minutes after SunSet
end

Jos

[manjh]

you beat me to it. I figured out:
test = os.date("%H") * 60 + os.date("%M")
Gives me the time of day in minutes. Really simple, actually...