Cumulus Support

GMT for me, especially as I live only 25 minutes in longitude and time from Greenwich!
Dave

In Australia, we have followed the lead of the Yanks and can walk AND chew gum!

The Bureau of Meteorology issues the public with cumulative figures that reset at 9am, whether it is summer time or not.

No doubt in a back room somewhere, they have a Super Cumulus program that allows them to calculate cumulative figures for the 24 hours to any time you nominate - allowing them to interact with the international meteorological community and ignore daylight saving if they wish.

I would like to add my voice to the antipodean request to allow us to select our own reset time - with an ignore daylight saving option for those who would prefer to do so.

My use of this program is to provide a local weather report for our community newspaper website. It is interacting with the public, not the meteorological community.

I would prefer not to continue to have to answer questions asking me to justify the 10am to 10am measurements, when everyone is expecting 9am to 9am.

Frankly, my Oregon Scientific weather station is not accurate enough to be taken seriously by the professionals.

Its purpose is simply to reflect local weather variability that is not evident in readings from the Bureau's official weather station some 20km away.


All the best

Mark

I am hoping that, in Cumulus 2, all the data will be timestamped in UTC, and then there will be some sort of magic that lets you access and display your data with any time zone you want, with any end of day that you want (and you can change your mind at any time). But I haven't thought it all through yet

Steve

Mark Snell wrote:I would like to add my voice to the antipodean request to allow us to select our own reset time - with an ignore daylight saving option for those who would prefer to do so.

I was thinking about this - I thought I understood, but now I'm not so sure. It already ignores daylight savings time with the '0900' option. It uses 0900 'standard' time all year round, e.g. 0900 GMT/UTC in the UK. If I now understand correctly, you would like an option to specify the time as 0900 (or whatever) but switch to an hour earlier (in 'real' time) during the summer (like the midnight option does)? That's the system used in Australia?

Steve

I've added an option to the latest build (733) to give the choice of sticking to clock time year-round for the 0900 option.

Steve