NAME

phases — calculate date/time of principal lunar phases around a date.

SYNOPSIS

  phases [options]

OPTIONS

--help

Prints a brief help message and exits.

--date

Date, either a calendar entry in format YYYY-MM-DD, or a floating-point Julian Day:

  --date="2019-06-08"

--timezone

Time zone short name, e.g.: EST, UTC etc. or offset from Greenwich in format +HHMM / -HHMM, like +0300.

    --timezone=CET # Central European Time
    --timezone=EST # Eastern Standard Time
    --timezone=UTC # Universal Coordinated Time
    --timezone=GMT # Greenwich Mean Time, same as the UTC
    --timezone=+0300 # UTC + 3h (eastward from Greenwich)

By default, local timezone by default, UTC under Windows.

Please, note: Windows platform does not recognize some time zone names, MSK for instance. In such cases, use offset from Greenwich format, as described above.

--theme color scheme:

• dark, default: color scheme for dark consoles

• light color scheme for light consoles

DESCRIPTION

phases computes lunar phases around a date.