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 ==Day/Night/Sun/Moon==
-These are updated each hour to refer to current time-zone
+In Cumulus 1 most of these are only calculated at UTC zero hours, but are updated each hour to refer to current time-zone.
+MX is more complicated, but most of these are calculated hourly.
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 |-
 |<#daylightlength>
-|Length of daylight in hours and minutes (dawn to dusk)
+| Approximate length of daylight in hours and minutes (dawn to dusk) - if your timezone is UTC or a few hours off that,  the dusk may well be that just passed, and the dawn that to come as at the zero hours UTC when Cumulus 1 does this calculation
 |-
 |<#isdaylight>
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 |A string giving an approximate predicted difference between the length of daylight (dawn to dusk) yesterday and length of daylight tomorrow.
-This web tag is unreliable, and its use is not recommended. Its use is therefore not supported (i.e. you use it at your own risk).
+This web tag is unreliable, basically because of the note for <#daylightlength>, and its use was not recommended. Its use is therefore not supported by Steve Loft (i.e. you use it at your own risk) in the legacy Cumulus.
 |-
 |<#moonphase>
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 MX b3047 adds the 'dp' and 'rc' parameters Supports an optional 'dp' parameter, if supplied the result is returned to the specified number of decimal places. E.g <#MoonAge> gives "11" <#MoonAge dp=3> gives "11.234"
-If the "dp" parameter is supplied, then also supplying "rc=y" in addition will cause any decimal comma to be converted to a decimal point.
+There is some PHP script code below this table showing how this can be converted to days, hours, minutes, seconds*
+If the "dp" parameter is supplied, then supplying "rc=y" in addition will cause any decimal comma to be converted to a decimal point.
 |-
 |<#moonrise>
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 |Returns 1 if the sun is shining, otherwise 0 (Solar sensor needed)
 |}
+*<code>
+	$MoonAgeDays 		= <#MoonAge dp=0> +0;
+	$moonDecimalPart 		= <#MoonAge dp=4> - $MoonAgeDays;
+	$MoonAgeHours 		= round($moonDecimalPart * 24, 0);
+	$MoonAgeMinutes  		= round(($moonDecimalPart * 24 * 60) - ($MoonAgeHours * 60), 0);
+	$MoonAgeSeconds		= round(($moonDecimalPart * 24 * 60 * 60) - ($MoonAgeHours * 60 * 60) - ($MoonAgeMinutes * 60), 3);
+	$MoonAge       	=    $MoonAgeDays . '&nbsp;days, ' .   $MoonAgeHours . '&nbsp;hours, '
+				. $MoonAgeMinutes . '&nbsp;minutes, ' . $MoonAgeSeconds . '&nbsp;seconds';
+	// Change the English words 'days, ', ' hours, ', and 'minutes' to the equivalents in your language</code>
 ==Alarms==