From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-10-05T09:00:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculating prayer times

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dwayne Henderson <its.code.in.here@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Does anybody know of a cleaner, more beautiful way of calculating prayer
> times than this https://gist.github.com/1ce3aecf39eef59e9223?
>
> It's a rewrite of prayertime.rb, although I don't think it looks any
> better.
> People tell me that calculating prayer times is crazy confusing and
> irrational and therefore simply ugly by nature, but I refuse to believe
> this. There's gotta be a better way?
>
> I don't mind the code consisting of more lines if that means it's more
> structured and easier to read by beginners, as opposed to shorter but more
> cryptic and dense looking.
>
> --Dwayne
>

You'd probably get more help if your question was more general. As is, I'm
not a Muslim, so I have no idea what the actual problem even is. I glanced
at the code, but there were foreign words in it, so I figure it'd take a lot
of effort to figure it out.

A preliminary guess would be that it has something to do with time zones,
but then looking at the code I see it has something to do with seasons, so
who knows.

If you can express it in a general enough sense that everyone can understand
it, then the chances of finding help will increase significantly.

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