
Meridian: Daylight
Sunrise, sunset & golden hour
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What's New in Meridian
1.4.1
August 22, 2026
Mostly apologies 1.4 added a line telling you which way to look for the Moon. It was confidently wrong. One evening it told me the Moon was in the west. The Moon was nineteen degrees off straight overhead, which is a long way from west. It now says "almost overhead" when that's true, and only names a compass point when one would actually help you. Then it did something worse. Driving with the Moon plainly visible through the windscreen, the app said it wouldn't be visible for another six minutes. It was checking whether the Moon was more than twelve degrees above the horizon. It was eleven. So the twelve-degree rule is gone, along with the two others sitting beside it. Where the app used to ask three separate questions — how high is it, how far from the Sun, how dark is the sky — it now asks one: is the Moon bright enough to pick out of the sky around it. That is the question you were asking anyway. The three old rules disagreed with each other, too: at dusk the app changed its mind twice inside eight minutes, and had been doing that quietly since the day it shipped. Sunset alerts are two minutes, not five A friend asked what five minutes of standing about does for someone with ADHD. I didn't have a good answer. Five minutes is a long time to wait for something to start. Smaller things The daylight Moon now tells you how long you've got, not only where to look. At the largest text sizes the readout no longer lies across the arc. And the About screen has a section on the Moon, because "up" and "visible" are not the same thing and nothing in the app admitted it.
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