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Weather Diary Saving as Previous Day

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Weather Diary Saving as Previous Day

Post by ARootBear »

I am having an issue where weather diary entries are saving as the previous day. A quick search shows that this issue was found and fixed in build 3047, but I am still encountering it in b3107 (b3107 is the first version of MX that I have used, so I can't comment on whether it is new).

I'm not sure what was causing the issue at that time, but I can provide more information if needed.
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Re: Weather Diary Saving as Previous Day

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I can confirm it is posting for the previous day in MX, and has been since at least October 2020 when I posted with my first snow fall for current winter season. I think it was posting for the correct day for our 2019 - 2020 winter. I've learned how to post and live with it. Likely I should have raised it but was not a priority. I also record the snow in Cumulus1 and that works on the correct day the same it has since I first used it in 2012 ;)

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Please provide whatever information you can. I just tested it and it posts to the correct day for me, so it may be a time zone issue.
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Re: Weather Diary Saving as Previous Day

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Actually, I think I have found it, MX switched to a new JSON parser a while back, this parser is interpreting UTC date/time strings as local time. I have patched the parser and I'll ask Paul to test this in the next beta version.
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Like every morning I entered my snow information yesterday (Sat Feb 13) by opening Feb 13 box in the Diary and then Apply, and then the Feb 12 box was red and Feb 13 stayed white. Earlier this morning for my daily snow entry the Sat Feb 13 box was still white (blank), and then clicking on today Sun Feb 14 and enter my snow info and Apply and that changed the Sat Feb 13 to red and the just entered data displays when clicking on Feb 13 and Feb 14 stayed white and blank. For this test I went back to the Feb 14 white box, re-entered my snow data and "Test" in comment box and then Apply, which then updates the Feb 13 data and Feb 14 box stays white - see screen capture. Tomorrow when I enter on Feb 15 the data will be saved as Feb 14, etc.

In checking my daily hand notes it has been this way from at least April 2020.

I've looked in MXdiags but there is nothing shown for the Diary entry. I haven't pursued any further on opening the diary.db file. Is there anywhere else I can get info to pass along?

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Ok will do.

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Re: Weather Diary Saving as Previous Day

Post by ARootBear »

My issue is identical to Paul's. We are both in Canada - I don't know about Paul, but I am using DD/MM/YYYY date format if that makes any difference.

Other than than, I'm using a WeatherLink Live + Vantage Vue on Windows 10.
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