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Cumulus 1.9.4.1098 halts with error message after startup

Posted: Wed 01 Oct 2014 11:59 am
by KRP
This morning after a PC reboot Cumulus 1.9.4.1098 halted after startup with error message "Could not convert variant of type (UnicodeString) into type (Date)."
Restarting Cumulus leads to the same error message. Rebooted the PC and restarted Cumulus with the same error message.

I tried to run Cumulus with the Davis VP2 disconnected with the same error message.

Any idea wath could be wrong?

Regards,
Klaas

Re: Cumulus 1.9.4.1098 halts with error message after startu

Posted: Thu 02 Oct 2014 9:28 am
by KRP
For a test the short date format had been changed from "yyyy-mm-dd" to "yyyy-mm-dd ddd".
After resetting this to the old "yyyy-mm-dd" and removing all weekday information from the ini files Cumulus is running like before.

Apparently the program does not take the Windows date setting into account.

Regards,
Klaas

Re: Cumulus 1.9.4.1098 halts with error message after startu

Posted: Thu 02 Oct 2014 9:36 am
by steve
KRP wrote:Apparently the program does not take the Windows date setting into account.
It does, and this is why this kind of problem occurs. For some settings, the Windows system routines are unable to parse the date format that the control panel allows (in some cases even the standard setting for a particular region).