[wxqc] WeatherLink for Windows v 5.7.1 Update Available...YTD consequences??

[dshelms at comcast.net]

Hi All:

DST issues will affect everything that is scheduled to occur in local time, which I assume implies your daily, monthly, and yearly climate statistics.  As for CWOP, I would not think that DST is an issue since we insert a UTC time stamp on all received (real-time) reports (the reason we only accept real-time, and no retrospective, observations).  

As for application and PC stability, not being on the actual local time should not be a problem.  However, everyone should be downloading the latest Windows OS (and Mac and Linux/Unix) patches so your operating system automatically switches to the correct local time and more importantly, has the latest security patches.

I think WeatherLink 5.7.1 is a great upgrade in support for CWOP, including the additional precip parameters (1hr and 24 hr accumulated rainfall) and the server upload default, rotate.aprs.net.  The rainfall parameters will allow MADIS and MesoWest to use WeatherLink reported precip for the first time (they could not use the  "since midnight" type rainfall parameter).

If a couple brave WeatherLink users could do a 1 week stability burn-in test for the group and report back to us on your experience, that would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,

Dave
CW0351


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Thomas Hybiske <t_biskit at yahoo.com>
> I've been running 5.6 for a couple of years as it was working well, and I didn't 
> want to mess with success.  Now, I would like to take advantage of the 
> additional features of 5.7.1.  What I'm wondering is what if any affect does 
> upgrading do to the YTD rainfall, Hi/Lo records, and monthly reports?  Tom 
> Hybiske K3GM (AR824).
> 
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