Sunrise/sunset time discrepancy

I like having sunrise/sunset as a datafield on my default watchface and also as a widget. Strangely, they are sometimes different, usually by a minute. Any idea why?

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bluefish over 4 years ago in reply to Philip +2 suggested

Philip said:
Garmin IQ watch face.

Very few IQ elements in the store are written by Garmin itself. Usually it's people who do this as a hobby. You too could develop IQ Apps if you learned to do so. Garmin…
C.sco over 5 years ago +1

I often experience the same. But considering the sun doesn't literally set during one precise minute, but rather it's a slow transition that takes 10+ minutes, I really don't think a 1 minute discrepancy…
gaijin over 4 years ago in reply to Philip +1

Philip said:
I'm using a standard Garmin IQ watch face.

Anything downloaded from the CIQ store is not a standard Garmin watch face. Can you link to which one you are using?

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0 acousticbiker over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21

Ah, ok, this makes sense and it would be more useful if the widget glance shifted to showing today’s sunset on left and tomorrow’s sunrise on right once today’s sunset has passed (the full widget probably needs to stay the way it is)

0 susu42 over 5 years ago in reply to C.sco

It seems to me that there is a small bug: the times given for sunrise and sunset are those of yesterday and not of today!!!

I noticed it on September 23, equinox day.

I have been to different places in Europe and everywhere the times given were for the day before!!

My Instinct has the same issue.

I am on the latest software.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

I travel a lot pulling oversize loads so knowing these times is important as I am typically not allowed to run before sunrise or after sunset. I've found that using a gps enabled activity, like walking, to cause the watch to acquire a gps lock automatically update these numbers to my present location.

0 susu42 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Agreed but the values given are for the day before NOT for today.

Garmin Pilot and or the GTN750 provide the correct data, our watches do not.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to susu42

You're correct, that does appear to be the case. I hadn't noticed it until now. Still only off by a couple of minutes, so no big deal for my uses, and I can always just look at tomorrow's if I need it to the minute. Good to know, and a bit of an odd glitch or fault.

0 Philip over 4 years ago

Sunrise and sunset off my an hour. If you are planning a run and using your expensive Garmin then I would expect the data to be correct. It seems this problem has been around since the fenix 5 and no fix yet

0 C.sco over 4 years ago in reply to Philip

Huh? How does the Garmin being expensive have anything to do with the fact that 3rd-party developers use different algorithms than Garmin?

Garmin has no control over what 3rd-party developers do. If you don't like what the developers are making, talk to them, or stop using their software. If it's off by exactly 60 minutes then you probably are using the wrong time zone setting somewhere.

This isn't Garmin's problem to fix. They couldn't even if they wanted to.

(and why does everyone always have to mention the product's price every time they want to report something they don't like? We know how much it costs, we don't need to be reminded 50x a day, thanks.)

0 Philip over 4 years ago in reply to C.sco

Simple. I expect a top end watch to be able to give accurate sunrise and Sunset. I don't agree that this isn't a Garmin problem. I'm using a standard Garmin IQ watch face. I'm sitting watching the sunrise and checking that time on my phones weather app. Garmin is off my an hour. I guy the watch and the entire ecosyste. Garmin should sort this out

0 gaijin over 4 years ago in reply to Philip

Philip said:
I'm using a standard Garmin IQ watch face.

Anything downloaded from the CIQ store is not a standard Garmin watch face. Can you link to which one you are using?

0 bluefish over 4 years ago in reply to Philip

Philip said:
Garmin IQ watch face.

Very few IQ elements in the store are written by Garmin itself. Usually it's people who do this as a hobby. You too could develop IQ Apps if you learned to do so. Garmin provides the platform for this.

There is a link button "contact the developer" for every program from the IQ Store. If you have problems, you should contact the developer and tell him the exact problem. Before doing this, it would make sense to check the settings page to see whether everything is set according to your requirements (daylight saving time / winter time?).

Then something else in terms of IQ elements and battery consumption. to prevent possible complaints when using CIQ elements.

Garmin gives official battery life for the watches. This information relates to the delivery status and adjusted settings. However, without subsequently installed elements. Garmin says "up to".

If you install something later, you can logically no longer refer to this information. IQ elements consume more battery. In some cases considerably more. This is due to technical reasons. Summary: Standard Garmin watch faces are already available when the watch is delivered. They are stored in ROM and processed by the processor differently than IQ elements. This enables long battery runtimes.

I would also be interested to know what the name of the watchface you are using.