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I should have set this up years ago. But it's no tale of woe.
Whether the temperature is high or low, regardless of cold winds blow,
away we go like Edgar Allan Poe, on now with the show. BTW rhymes are welcome.
In my experience, the only workaround for this problem is to create a roof and then remove it. The easiest way is to use worldedit and then create two blocks for the corners of the roof. Then //p set, //set dirt, //set air and the lighting gets forced to update below. Why you would need to do that I have no idea.