Re: Night light, sunset and sunrise times in Gnome
On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 11:13 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 24 mar 20, 18:24:04, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> > hello,
> > I am running Gnome in Debian Buster, which comes with the Night
> > Light
> > feature. I have set up night light in the Sunset/Sunrise setting. I
> > have also correcly set my timezone (location?). My issue is, sunset
> > is
> > coming and Night Light is gettin activated way after this time. I
> > would
> > like to ask how I can know where the program is getting my
> > location's
> > sunset time from? Is there a way for me to check this?
> > thank you,
>
> One way to determine your location would be from some GeoIP
> database,
> based on your public IP.
>
> If your ISP is allocating IPs as mine does this might (sometimes) be
> wildly inaccurate.
>
I imagine there are various ways of determining location. I am asking
if anyone knows how the Night Light app is doing it.
thank you,
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