End time before start time

General
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Hi!
I noticed that NodeRed (at Home Assistant) cannot handle situations where the end time (sunrise) is before the start time (08:00).
I have this action, that turns the light on at 08:00 in the morning (at the weekend) and it should turn off when the sun rises. Except that this time year sunrise is already earlier than 08:00 here in (southern part ) Finland.
The result is that the light turns on at some "random" point (last night it was 00:22) and doesn't turn off.

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Many of the nodes that offer actions based on solar activity struggle to do the right thing when far north or far south at certain times of the year.

I spent far too much time figuring this out when I developed node-red-contrib-cron-plus. You may want to give that node a try instead. For example, in cron-plus, each message has additional info including the solar state. So, for example, you could use a switch node to check to see the solar phase is "day" and throw away that 8am message.

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