SunUpDown

Introduction

Simple module to display the local time of sunrise and sunset for a location.
Parameters to set the latitude and longitude (search google to find the coordinates for a given location), text to appear before and after the times, and the timezone to use for times.
You can also display the current date and time at the location (the time does not update, this is not a clock!)
Stylesheet is installed in media/ and can be edited or over-ridden in the normal way. Default style prefix to use the supplied stylesheet is 'sud_'

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