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Bad dates in history
Posted: Tue 03 Nov 2015 11:23 pm
by cirdan52
I don't know where to look for this error but I'm getting one date and time for the records.
Re: Bad dates in history
Posted: Wed 04 Nov 2015 7:59 am
by steve
As the problem apparently happened back in mid-August, it's probably going to be difficult to determine the cause. The first thing to check is whether the monthlyalltime.ini file actually has those dates for your July records (I suspect it does). Do any of your other months have suspect timestamps? When did you start using MX, and did you copy your data over from Cumulus 1?
The most likely explanation is that you started Cumulus up at that date and time in August, and it was unable to read the correct timestamps from the monthlyalltime.ini file for some reason. The timestamp gets reset to the current date and time. It's not a particularly useful thing to do, but it's difficult to do anything else. Cumulus doesn't actually get told that this has happened.
Re: Bad dates in history
Posted: Wed 04 Nov 2015 10:48 am
by cirdan52
Yes the monthlyalltime.ini has the wrong date (August 10). I started CumulusMX back in May so that isn't the problem, however I just recently moved the folder over to my Raspberry so it may have stemmed from there. I guess I am asking is how I correct the problem?
Re: Bad dates in history
Posted: Wed 04 Nov 2015 11:25 am
by steve
I was just replying, but you appear to have edited the post and changed your mind about the monthlyalltime.ini file? It has the correct dates for the July sections (the ones ending in "...07]")?
If you copied the file between systems which have different date format ordering, e.g. one is mm/dd/yy and the other is dd/mm/yy, then the second system will get very confused over the dates.
Re: Bad dates in history
Posted: Wed 04 Nov 2015 12:25 pm
by cirdan52
steve wrote:I was just replying, but you appear to have edited the post and changed your mind about the monthlyalltime.ini file? It has the correct dates for the July sections (the ones ending in "...07]")?
If you copied the file between systems which have different date format ordering, e.g. one is mm/dd/yy and the other is dd/mm/yy, then the second system will get very confused over the dates.
I had a backup so I just copied the good one over. I guess a question/confirmation. If you lose the monthlyalltime.ini, the program will not go and check your data and repopulate the values & dates.
Re: Bad dates in history
Posted: Wed 04 Nov 2015 1:08 pm
by steve
cirdan52 wrote:If you lose the monthlyalltime.ini, the program will not go and check your data and repopulate the values & dates.
No, that's what the editor is for in Cumulus 1 - to manually cause this to happen, when you want it to happen. MX doesn't have this yet.