Any way to get the value days since 30 Dec 1899

jrichert · Post by **jrichert** » Fri 07 Dec 2012 1:53 pm

Sorry for asking - found it in Build 1055 - will give it a testing..

Many thanks

joe

Hello

I am using html parsing from cumulus to create a file with weather date for my allsky cam. All is working fine, except the times tamp. The software is awaiting the days since 30 Dec 1899. You can see the problem on the right top corner.
http://www.richert.ch/wetter/cam/ImageL ... AllSKY.jpg
Any ideas how I can solve this?

Many thanks and greetings from Switzerland.

Joe, HB9DRT

Post by **steve** » Fri 07 Dec 2012 2:30 pm

I can't think of any way you could get that directly from Cumulus. But it's a common way of storing dates and times, and it's how they are stored internally in Cumulus. So it would be very easy to provide a web tag giving the current date/time in that format.

jrichert · Post by **jrichert** » Fri 07 Dec 2012 3:01 pm

Hi Steve

Thanks for the quick response. That would be great if I could just replace the field in the file with a cumulus web tag.
Please let me know, when you have a version or a way for me to test it...

Many thanks

Joe

mcrossley · Post by **mcrossley** » Fri 07 Dec 2012 3:02 pm

If you can use a bit of javascript on your page, then you could use something like

var daysSince1899 = (new Date() - new Date(1899, 11, 30)) / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

jrichert · Post by **jrichert** » Fri 07 Dec 2012 3:30 pm

Hi Mark

No, that is not possible. The SW is awaiting a text file, already filled with the values. That's also the reason why I have to let cumulus create this file with content.

Let's see, what Steve can do

It's snowing the whole day and I would like to test the allsky cam

So I have time to do some more testing and SW optimizing

Thanks for your Tip and Greetings from Switzerland

Joe

mcrossley · Post by **mcrossley** » Fri 07 Dec 2012 3:33 pm

I am interested in the software you are using for the all sky cam to produce the overlay. I have a camera I intended to set up (QHY5) and a cheap fisheye lens but never found the time to really get it going.

jrichert · Post by **jrichert** » Fri 07 Dec 2012 7:13 pm

The SW only supports TIS (The Imaging Source) Cameras...

sfws · Post by **sfws** » Sat 08 Dec 2012 7:00 am

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mcrossley · Post by **mcrossley** » Sat 08 Dec 2012 8:40 am

Yes it does.
The 1899 base date is used by spreadsheets - I believe due to an error in the early days in thinking 1900 was a leap year, so they had to take 1 day off the normal 1900 base date to compensate when the error was discovered

jrichert · Post by **jrichert** » Fri 14 Dec 2012 12:51 pm

Hi Mark

Any news about the html tag? Can you add this feature in the next beta version?

Many thanks

Joe

Post by **steve** » Fri 14 Dec 2012 1:26 pm

Any news about the html tag? Can you add this feature in the next beta version?

It's in build 1055.

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