Re: Davis Weatherlink export problem


"Dave Liquorice" <allsortsnotthisbit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:nyyfbegfubjuvyypbz.kqx5im1.pminews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:21:19 +1300, Malone wrote:

I've never understood why Davis don't offer an option to automatically
synchronise the station time with the computer time?

'cause weather data recording doesn't normally take DST into account.
It sticks with UTC and TZ offset. The clock time of taking
observations changes to ensure that they are still at the same hour
of the day. IYSWIM...

Or are they just totally indifferent to their customers? Even when they
may be pointing out bugs that allow Davis to improve their products?

One could say that Davis are American and therefore the rest of the
world and their silly time zones don't exist but that would be a
little unfair. I suspect it is an oversight associated with UTC +13
and > instead of >=.

Why don't you shift time zone on your PC to some where that has only
an 11 hour or less offset and see if the export works then. Don't
forget to set your TZ back afterwards...

--
Cheers
Dave.


You're dead right Dave. I've just reset the time zone to Hobart (UTC+10) and it works fine. Exported results include midnight. Thanks for that. With that evidence I'll approach the NZ Davis dealer to try to get something done!!

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