tl;dr I ported a part of the python-suntime library to Lua to use it on OpenWRT and RutOS powered devices. suntime.lua
There are those unremarkable things which let you pause for a moment, and realize what a great gift of our time open source software and open knowledge is. At some point in time someone figured out how to calculate the sunrise and sunset time on the current date for your location. Someone else wrote that up and probably again a different person published it on the internet. The Internet Archive preserved a copy of it so I can still link to it. Someone took this algorithm and published a code sample on StackOverflow, which was later on used by the SatAgro guys to create the python-suntime library. Now I could come along, copy the core function of this library, convert it within a few hours - mostly spent learning a bit of Lua, to a working script fulfilling my needs.