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The today file is written to throughout the current day as any new High or Low for the day at reached. If your weather station reports a rogue value, an incorrect update to the High or Low may result, but details of that update should be in the [[Diags]], so look there to see what correction will be required to eliminate the rogue value. Normally you would not need to edit today.ini, as if you wait until the next day, Cumulus provides (with its Edit menu) an easy way to amend the stored extremes for this month, this year, monthly records, and all-time. The wrong figures may be displayed on the yesterday screen for this next day, but yesterday.ini can be edited more easily! | The today file is written to throughout the current day as any new High or Low for the day at reached. If your weather station reports a rogue value, an incorrect update to the High or Low may result, but details of that update should be in the [[Diags]], so look there to see what correction will be required to eliminate the rogue value. Normally you would not need to edit today.ini, as if you wait until the next day, Cumulus provides (with its Edit menu) an easy way to amend the stored extremes for this month, this year, monthly records, and all-time. The wrong figures may be displayed on the yesterday screen for this next day, but yesterday.ini can be edited more easily! | ||
''' | '''Notes:''' | ||
*If you do decide to edit 'today.ini' outside Cumulus, you must close Cumulus down first! | |||
*Don't try to edit 'yesterday.ini' within a few minutes before or after Cumulus performs a rollover (either at rollover time or on restarting if it was not running at rollover time). | |||
=== Editing today.ini within Cumulus === | === Editing today.ini within Cumulus === | ||
You may wish to [[FAQ#My_station_invented_some_rain_that_didn.27t_really_occur.2C_and_I_want_to_set_it_to_zero_.28or_some_other_figure.29 | edit the rain data]] if there has been a quirk in your weather station reporting during the day and the figure is abnormally inflated (or indeed under-reported). The stored rainfall today value in today.ini may be edited within Cumulus via ''Today's rain'' screen on the '''Edit''' menu. This edit does not affect any false derived rainfall values for the month or year, unless you subsequently close and restart Cumulus the same day to force recalculation of the longer period totals. | You may wish to [[FAQ#My_station_invented_some_rain_that_didn.27t_really_occur.2C_and_I_want_to_set_it_to_zero_.28or_some_other_figure.29 | edit the rain data]] if there has been a quirk in your weather station reporting during the day and the figure is abnormally inflated (or indeed under-reported). The stored rainfall today value in today.ini may be edited within Cumulus via ''Today's rain'' screen on the '''Edit''' menu. This edit does not affect any false derived rainfall values for the month or year, unless you subsequently close and restart Cumulus the same day to force recalculation of the longer period totals. | ||
