ashuttl/linecast v2.3.0

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The moon follows traditional calendars: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai by language; Hebrew, Islamic, Hawaiian, Samoan, CHamoru, and the Old Farmer's Almanac by choice. It has a month view. Thai is the eighteenth language. Street maps get route shields, sunrise and sunset times are more accurate, and every European alert now applies to the ground it covers.

New this version:

• Moon: In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean the panel follows the traditional calendar: the lunar date beside the phase name (农历七月二十, 旧暦7月20日, 음력 7월 20일), the solar term in progress and the date of the next, and the coming festival (中秋节, 추석, 十五夜). In Japanese the headline names the night by the old calendar's day: 十六夜, 立待月, 居待月, 寝待月, 更待月.
• Moon: In Thai the panel follows the Thai lunar calendar: the waxing or waning day in Thai numerals (แรม ๔ ค่ำ เดือน ๙), the year's animal, the next วันพระ, and the coming festival, มาฆบูชา through ลอยกระทง.
• Moon: In Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Thai (--lang zh, ja, ko, th) the matching calendar comes with the language. In any other language, --calendar chinese, japanese, korean, or thai shows one of them, with the customary English names ("Mid-Autumn Festival Sep 25"). The calendars below belong to no language and are chosen the same way. --calendar none turns any of them off, linecast calendar saves the choice, and linecast doctor shows it.
• Moon: --calendar hawaiian follows the Kaulana Mahina. Each night is named (Hilo, Hoaka, Māhealani, Muku) with its anahulu, and the month begins on the first night the crescent can be seen over Hawaiʻi, as in the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's calendars. The panel also gives the night's traditional fishing counsel, quoted from the Council's educational materials and credited on screen.
• Moon: --calendar samoan and --calendar chamorro follow the Council's American Samoa and Guam calendars: thirty named nights, counted from the first evening the crescent can be seen over Pago Pago or Hagåtña. --calendar refaluwasch is the CNMI calendar, which sets the Refaluwasch name beside the CHamoru one on the nights tradition names.
• Moon: --calendar islamic follows the Umm al-Qura calendar: the Hijri date beside the phase (23 Ramadan 1447 AH), turning at sunset, the coming month, and the next observance from Islamic New Year through Eid al-Adha, with "begins at sunset" the day before. Month starts follow Saudi Arabia's civil rule; a country's announced dates may differ by a day.
• Moon: --calendar hebrew follows the Hebrew calendar: the date beside the phase (20 Elul 5786), turning at sunset, the coming month, and the next holiday from Rosh Hashanah through Tisha B'Av, with "begins at sunset" the day before. A location in Israel keeps one day of Yom Tov, anywhere else two. --json carries the date in Hebrew letters too (כ׳ אלול תשפ״ו).
• Moon: --calendar almanac reads the moon the way the Old Farmer's Almanac does: the light or dark of the moon, gardening counsel for it, and the day's solunar periods. The almanac's full-moon names (Harvest, Blue, and the rest) show here and in the plain English view.
• Moon: --json reports the active calendar in a calendar block, or null when none is shown. --oneline adds the lunar date after the rise and set times (· 20 Elul 5786, · 旧暦7月22日), or the night's name in place of the phase where the calendar names nights.
• Moon: v in live mode flips between the disc and a month of phases. Each day is a small shaded disc, with today and the principal phases marked; a calendar in force sets its months in the title, its festivals on the days, and, for Hebrew and Islamic, its date in the corner of each cell. Scroll to page through months, hover a day for its phase, moonrise, and moonset, and click one to open it in the disc view. linecast moon --grid opens on the month.
• Sunshine: v switches between the day and year views, the same key as in maps and moon. y still works.
• Thai is the eighteenth language. --lang th puts the whole app in Thai.
• Maps: Route shields name their network (I-95, US-1, ME-128, M6, A38) and take the sign's color where there is one: interstates and motorways blue, US routes white, UK primary routes green. A shield appears at most twice per view.
• Maps: Exit numbers are bracketed and drawn in the ramp's dimmer ink, so they no longer pass for route numbers. A numbered road also shows its name at close zooms.
• Maps: Major cities are named in capitals, going by the city's own population rather than its metro area's, and national and state capitals get a star instead of a dot.
• Maps: Street maps shade built-up ground, so towns and cities read as settlement even where no one has mapped the land use.
• Maps: With daylight on, the header names what the sun is over ("sun over North Pacific Ocean") instead of the elevation at the centre of the view. Pointing at the terrain still reads the elevation there.
• Maps and radar: The header starts with the place name instead of the app's name.
• Weather: A line on the hourly chart marks the current time, so now stays visible after scrolling away from it (thanks @ebrannin-bw for #49).
• Sunshine: The year view fills the window with the sky, and the month labels sit on it. The sunrise/sunset line, which described only today, is gone; the pop-up gives those times for any day.
• Sunshine: The year view's daylight is hazier near sunrise and sunset, whiter low in the sky and bluer as the sun climbs.
• Radar: The marangai theme's top bands match MetService's legend more closely: heavy rain stays in the reds, and the possible-hail run of purple, white, green, and pink starts around 45 dBZ.

Fixes:

• Weather: The last MeteoAlarm feeds are matched by geometry: Bulgaria, Romania, France, Hungary, Belgium, North Macedonia, and Czechia. Every European alert now applies to the ground it covers.
• Weather: Alerts in Switzerland show again. The Swiss feed had grown past the size linecast would read, so the board showed a quiet day.
• Weather and tides: The live views no longer freeze on a slow network. Refreshes load in the background while the view keeps drawing what it has.
• Weather: The header names small towns correctly. It could show the timezone city ("New York") instead of the place itself.
• Sunshine: Sunrise and sunset times are more accurate. They could be ten or more minutes out in spring and autumn, most at high latitudes. The sky in both views and the globe's day/night edge sharpen with them.
• Sunshine: Languages with different words for morning and evening twilight now use the right one: świt and zmierzch in Polish, gryning and skymning in Swedish, aube and crépuscule in French. The evening word was used around the clock.
• Sunshine: The Polish and Finnish names for nautical twilight use the standard terms (żeglarski, nauttinen), and the Italian names for morning twilight are the customary short ones (alba astronomica, nautica, civile).
• Sunshine: The Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian "days ago" phrases begin with their preposition: för 3 dagar sedan, for 3 dage siden.
• Sunshine: The year view's month axis in French tells June from July (jun, jul). Both had truncated to "jui".
• Moon: The Korean phase names use the everyday words: 상현달, 보름달, 그믐달, with the gibbous phases as 차오르는 달 and 기우는 달.
• Tides: The Indonesian view names the wave and swell lines in Indonesian (gelombang, alun) instead of English.
• Radar: Frames that arrive incomplete are fetched again instead of drawn, since the missing parts looked like clear weather. A source that cannot serve its tiles falls back to the next.
• Chart and map labels in scripts with combining marks, Thai for one, keep those marks.
• Shell completions offer the calendar command and its choices.
• The hover pop-ups in weather, tides, radar, and the sunshine year view sit clear of the mouse pointer instead of underneath it (thanks @ebrannin-bw for #48).