Records began date

[bigharps]

I upgraded to V 1.9.2 a couple of weeks ago. Today I noticed that the "Records" page on the website informed me that records began on May 22, 2012 - the date I did the upgrade, but still showed the records from 2010 and 2011.
I replaced the recordsbegandate tag from the recordT.htm with the date I started the station.
It might be an idea to include a heads-up in the readme file for those upgrading from earlier versions.

[steve]

An upgrade doesn't change the 'records began date'. A successful upgrade never changes or loses any data or settings. The 'records began date' is stored in cumulus.ini, which doesn't get overwritten or modified by an upgrade; it's the 'StartDate=' line. If you lost that setting from cumulus.ini, that would suggest some kind of problem the first time you ran Cumulus after the upgrade, and I would have expected you to have also lost other settings.

[bigharps]

Yep, makes sense. You may recall my previous post about converting between wind speeds about 8 posts down, where I explained loss of all settings. Quite likely that is when those dates changed, but as I rarely look at the Records page on the website, I didn't see it until the other day.
Thanks for your patience!

Another possibly silly question...
I've noticed that if I have the Cumulus window open (IE visible to read on the desktop), then the screen saver and the power saving screen switch off do not work.
Is there a setting I've missed to avoid this?
I usually just make certain the window is reduced and all works correctly.

[steve]

I've noticed that if I have the Cumulus window open (IE visible to read on the desktop), then the screen saver and the power saving screen switch off do not work.
Is there a setting I've missed to avoid this?

Sorry, I don't know why that would happen, there's nothing intentional in Cumulus to do it - I don't even know how to do it. Screen power off works fine on both of the systems I use for Cumulus (I go straight to power off, I don't use screen savers).