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Sunset before sunrise? #79

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@craigstanton

In this basic example I am trying to find the sunrise and sunset times for March 1st 2021 in the middle of Alaska

    const toi = createTimeOfInterest.fromDate(new Date(Date.UTC(2021, 2, 1)));
            const loc = {lat: 66.160507, lon: -153.369141, elevation: 0}
            const promiseRise = createSun(toi).getRise(loc);
            const promiseSet = createSun(toi).getSet(loc);
            Promise.all([promiseRise, promiseSet]).then((results: any[]) => {
                console.log('Sunrise', results[0].getDate());
                console.log('Sunset', results[1].getDate());
            })

The output has the two times on different days with the sunrise occurring after sunset

'Sunrise', Tue Mar 02 2021 06:27:08 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
'Sunset', Mon Mar 01 2021 16:22:15 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)

I can't see any discussion of this in the docs and I had assumed that the returned data would be for the same day (midnight to midnight) as the time provided.

I have experimented with the locations and found that changing from lat = -102 to -103 then sunrise switches from before the sunset to after it


const toi = createTimeOfInterest.fromTime(2021, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0);
const loc = {lat: 66.160507, lon: -102, elevation: 0}

What is the expected behaviour?

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