No sunrise time in the Arctic Circle

Bug #572787 reported by Vassili Platonov
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libgweather
New
Medium
libgweather (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Hi
Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid), GNOME 2.30.0
Time of sunrise for areas located beyond the Arctic Circle is incorrectly calculated. For example, to Murmansk (Russia), sunrise is not visible (???) in ClockApplet, but in WeatherApplet time does not correspond to reality.
It seems the problem is libgweather. Sunrise is correctly displayed only to south of the latitude of the Arctic Circle (66.56083°). Everything by North gives an error.
For example, (GNOME_ClockApplet) 2010-04-30:
lat 65,00000 sunrise 05:18
lat 66,56083 sunrise 05:14 (The Arctic Circle)
lat 67,00000 sunrise (???)
lat 68,96667 sunrise (???) (Murmansk)

Don't offend people of the Far North. We are a little and we are far away, but Ubuntu has reached us.

Sorry for poor English, thanks everyone

Changed in libgweather:
status: Unknown → New
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ooze (zoe-gauthier) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It looks like the original developer was aware of the problem because there is a note in the code telling that there is still work to do in the area. I think the problem lies more with the difficulty of doing the calculation right than laziness ;) Thanks!

affects: ubuntu → libgweather (Ubuntu)
Changed in libgweather (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in libgweather:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Revision history for this message
Javier Moreno (elpasmo) wrote :

I can confirm this in Maverick 10.10. libgweather: 2.30.3-0buntu1

Changed in libgweather (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Javier Moreno (elpasmo)
summary: - Problem in libgweather
+ No sunrise time in the Arctic Circle
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