[Babase] Rain units and other weather leftovers

Jeanne Altmann altj at Princeton.EDU
Fri Mar 27 17:19:43 EDT 2009


Thanks Karl.  As you know, Tabby won't be back until Tuesday.  However,
if you need me to try to handle something before then, alert me.  :-)
Cheers,
jeanne 

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From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Karl O.
Pinc
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:05 PM
To: The Baboon Database Project
Subject: Re: [Babase] Rain units and other weather leftovers


On 03/27/2009 02:26:50 PM, kfenn wrote:
> Karl ,
> Please my replies below.
> Also, we found a few records in your daytime.txt file where the date 
> disappeared as part of programming functions (i've got the date in my 
> excel sheet).  This seems to occur when we have no min max temp 
> readings but there is a precip reading.  See 5/11/88 and 7/4/89 for 
> example.

The problem seems to be in those cases where my program has computed an
average time for the month and used that were there was no time in the
original data.

I think if you look at the text file in notepad or something you'll see
the date.  Apparently excel is not able to deal with seconds or
fractions thereof and shows you nothing.  The database won't have that
problem, although RAINGAUGES.RGspan is an integral number of seconds.

(I just added a caution regarding rounding to the RGspan docs.)

Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein

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