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On 12.12.24 13:43, DrStevenStrange wrote:
> Ok - don't laugh
>
> My coding skills are pitiful so I asked my resident Ai to write a bash
> script to call a webcam script (I did write this one) only between
> sunrise and sunset. it produced this and it works! My question is - how
> can I amend the script so it starts 30 minutes BEFORE sunrise and stops
> 30  Minutes after?
[...]
> # Convert sunrise and sunset times to seconds since epoch
> SUNRISE_EPOCH=$(date -d "$SUNRISE" +%s)
> SUNSET_EPOCH=$(date -d "$SUNSET" +%s)
> CURRENT_EPOCH=$(date +%s)

Since you already have the date/times in seconds since the epoch, just
add/subtract 30 minutes worth of seconds for AFTER and BEFORE!

Josef

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