[Babase] Re: The promised 'final' version of the weather data

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Tue Mar 31 11:59:11 EDT 2009


Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 03/27/2009 03:28:59 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>>
>> On 03/27/2009 02:34:25 PM, kfenn wrote:
>>> Otherwise I guess we can talk more about the upload process on 
>>> Tuesday when I'm back.  I'm fine with all the columns and populating 
>>> the TRUE FALSE info.  I'll just need you to handle bringing the date 
>>> and time together.
>>
>> Bringing the date and time together means making another view
>> for you to use with the upload program.
>
> I changed my mind and decided that another view is more
> complicated than adding WRdate and WRtime columns to
> the MIN_MAXS (like) view(s).  So I went ahead and added
> the columns and a few more warnings in the docs
> about inserting into MIN_MAXS.
>

I looked at some online excel help forums today and I found a way to 
bring these two together in one column.  On Friday, silly me looked at 
using things like datetime custom formatting and concatenate functions, 
but it turns out all I have to do is add a "+" to my excel function.  
How stupid is that?

So.....would you like to go back to the beginning, have me change the 
file to include a datetime stamp, and format all future uploads with the 
datetime stamp?  Would that save users from themselves?


> Tabby, I think it's time to take a look at the docs and see
> what you think.  Once you've supplied me with corrections
> then it's time for Jeanne/Susan to give final approval
> (and point out that data is plural. ;-)
>
OK.  I will try to get to that tomorrow morning and give you feedback 
before I leave tomorrow.  (I've got to proof our Feb data after lunch 
today.)


> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
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