/* PD by Michelangelo Jones, 1:1/124. */ /* ** Returns 0 for new moon, 15 for full moon, ** 29 for the day before new, and so forth. */ /* ** This routine sometimes gets "off" by a few days, ** but is self-correcting. */ int moon_age(int month, int day, int year) { static short int ages[] = {18, 0, 11, 22, 3, 14, 25, 6, 17, 28, 9, 20, 1, 12, 23, 4, 15, 26, 7}; static short int offsets[] = {-1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 9, 9}; if (day == 31) day = 1; return ((ages[(year + 1) % 19] + ((day + offsets[month-1]) % 30) + (year < 1900)) % 30); } #ifdef TEST #include #include static char *description[] = { "new", /* totally dark */ "waxing crescent", /* increasing to full & quarter light */ "in its first quarter", /* increasing to full & half light */ "waxing gibbous", /* increasing to full & > than half */ "full", /* fully lighted */ "waning gibbous", /* decreasing from full & > than half */ "in its last quarter", /* decreasing from full & half light */ "waning crescent" /* decreasing from full & quarter light */ }; static char *months[] = {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"}; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int month, day, year, phase; if (4 > argc) { puts("Usage: MOON_AGE month day year"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } month = atoi(argv[1]); day = atoi(argv[2]); year = atoi(argv[3]); if (100 > year) year += 1900; printf("moon_age(%d, %d, %d) returned %d\n", month, day, year, phase = moon_age(month, day, year)); printf("Moon phase on %d %s %d is %s\n", day, months[month - 1], year, description[(int)((phase + 2) * 16L / 59L)]); } #endif /* TEST */