Moon age bug?

[Mapantz]

I have just noticed that my moon info wasn't showing on my index page. A further investigation shows that <#MoonAge> is being parsed as 30 - I don't think I have ever seen that before?

[mcrossley]

Odd, it should be 29
I'll have a look...

It was 30 briefly....

[mcrossley]

OK, a subtle effect of now allowing you to get greater precision on the MoonAge tag. The mean lunar cycle is approx 29.53 days (varies between approx 29.26 and 29.80), so some cycles the maximum rounded integer age will be 30.

The MoonAge tag now allows you to specify a number of decimal places as well. Previously it used a truncated integer value which of course never exceeded 29, but the effect of that is that it did not indicate each of the phases until after they had happened. With the rounded age it will now show New Moon half a day before and half a day after the event. Previously it would show it for the full day afterwards.

If you just use the integer value to say display an image - say like... <img src="moon<#MoonAge>.png"> - then you will now need an extra "moon30.png" image.

If you use the age as a numeric value to determine the phase text, then you can use the extra decimal places to refine the that process.