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How to Calculate Daylight Hours with Copilot

Calculate daylight hours in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter.

Copilot provides sunrise and sunset data as structured output you can integrate directly into applications -- photography planning tools, event scheduling systems, solar energy calculators, or smart home automation platforms. Get precise astronomical times for any coordinates and date returned as typed JSON, ready to drop into your codebase. Build features that automatically adjust to seasonal daylight changes without hardcoding sunrise tables.

Connect ToolRouter to Copilot

1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool

2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details

Server name

ToolRouter

Server description

Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.

Server URL

https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp

3Set Authentication to None and click Create

Steps

Once connected (see setup above), use the Sunrise Sunset tool:

In Copilot Chat: "Get sunrise and sunset for these coordinates"
Copilot returns times you can use to calculate day length
Build daylight duration features into your app

Example Prompt

Try this with Copilot using the Sunrise Sunset tool

Get sunrise and sunset for 59.3293,18.0686 today. Calculate total daylight hours.

Tips

Build seasonal daylight charts from the data
Use for smart home automation scheduling
Calculate daylight across a date range for trend analysis

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