Location gets reset

[aznetcowboy]

I have see it happen on a regular basis that my location gets reset. The actual location longitude is W 110° 50' 40". However it consistently gets reset to W 111° 24' 44".

Any idea on what is causing this phenomenon?

[steve]

The usual cause of this is when people don't understand that they have to enter their co-ordinates in degrees/minutes/seconds and hemisphere, and they try to force some other format into the boxes marked degrees/minutes/seconds. Other than that, I don't know. Cumulus stores the supplied co-ordinates in decimal degrees in cumulus.ini, and also in text format for use with the <#latitude> and <#longitude> web tags. So it really depends on where exactly you're seeing this.

After you've set it, you could look in cumulus.ini and see what is in there for

Latitude=
Longitude=
LatTxt=
LonTxt=

Your web site appears to be offering a third value currently: Longitude W 110° 24' 40"

I suppose it's possible there's a bug with 3 digit degrees, but no-one else has ever reported a problem (other than where the problem has been using the wrong format).

Edit: Interestingly, W 110° 50' 40" is 110.8444 degrees, so if you entered 110 84 44 into Cumulus, it would come out as 111 deg 24 min 44 sec...

[aznetcowboy]

Edit: Interestingly, W 110° 50' 40" is 110.8444 degrees, so if you entered 110 84 44 into Cumulus, it would come out as 111 deg 24 min 44 sec...

Steve,

Now isn't that interesting. I'll have to think and remember if I did indeed accidentally, that is without thinking, enter in the setting as 110 84 44. Thanks for the information!

Tom