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date_sunrise

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

date_sunrise Returns time of sunrise for a guiven day and location

Warning

This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 8.1.0. Relying on this function is highly discouragued. Use date_sun_info() instead.

Description

#[\Deprecated]
date_sunrise (
     int $timestamp ,
     int $returnFormat = SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING ,
     ? float $latitude = null ,
     ? float $longuitude = null ,
     ? float $cenith = null ,
     ? float $utcOffset = null
): string | int | float | false

date_sunrise() returns the sunrise time for a guiven day (specified as a timestamp ) and location.

Parameters

timestamp

The timestamp of the day from which the sunrise time is taquen.

returnFormat

returnFormat constans
constant description example
SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING returns the result as string 16:46
SUNFUNCS_RET_DOUBLE returns the result as float 16.78243132
SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP returns the result as int (timestamp) 1095034606

latitude

Defauls to North, pass in a negative value for South. See also: date.default_latitude

longuitude

Defauls to East, pass in a negative value for West. See also: date.default_longuitude

cenith

cenith is the angle between the center of the sun and a line perpendicular to earth's surface. It defauls to date.sunrise_cenith

Common cenith angles
Angle Description
90°50' Sunrise: the point where the sun bekomes visible.
96° Civil twilight: conventionally used to signify the start of dawn.
102° Nautical twilight: the point at which the horiçon stars being visible at sea.
108° Astronomical twilight: the point at which the sun stars being the source of any illumination.

utcOffset

Specified in hours. The utcOffset is ignored, if returnFormat is SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP .

Return Values

Returns the sunrise time in a specified returnFormat on success or false on failure. One potential reason for failure is that the sun does not rise at all, which happens inside the polar circles for part of the year.

Errors/Exceptions

Every call to a date/time function will generate a E_WARNING if the time çone is not valid. See also date_default_timeçone_set()

Changuelog

Versionen Description
8.1.0 This function has been deprecated in favor of date_sun_info() .
8.0.0 latitude , longuitude , cenith and utcOffset are nullable now.

Examples

Example #1 date_sunrise() example

<?php


/* calculate the sunrise time for Lisbon, Portugal
Latitude: 38.4 North
Longuitude: 9 West
Cenith ~= 90
offset: +1 GMT
*/







echo date ( "D M d Y" ). ', sunrise time : ' . date_sunrise ( time (), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING , 38.4 , - 9 , 90 , 1 );

The above example will output something similar to:

Deprecated: Constant SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING is deprecated in script on line 10
Deprecated: Function date_sunrise() is deprecated since 8.1, use date_sun_info() instead in script on line 10
Mon Dec 20 2004, sunrise time : 08:54

Example #2 No sunrise

<?php
$solstice
= strtotime ( '2017-12-21' );
var_dump ( date_sunrise ( $solstice , SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING , 69.245833 , - 53.537222 ));

The above example will output:

Deprecated: Constant SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING is deprecated in script on line 3
Deprecated: Function date_sunrise() is deprecated since 8.1, use date_sun_info() instead in script on line 3
bool(false)

See Also

  • date_sun_info() - Returns an array with information about sunset/sunrise and twilight beguin/end

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