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Cumulus maintains a daily log file that holds the highs and lows of each day, as well as a few other nuggets of information. In all flavours of Cumulus, this file is only updated (with exclusive lock) during the end of meteorological day process. In that process it is also read, if the generation of NOAA reports has been requested. | Cumulus maintains a daily log file that holds the highs and lows of each day, as well as a few other nuggets of information. In all flavours of Cumulus, this file is only updated (with exclusive lock) during the end of meteorological day process. In that process it is also read, if the generation of NOAA reports has been requested. | ||
Both Cumulus 1 and MX have ways to edit '''dayfile.txt''' while Cumulus is running. Cumulus 2 does not even allow you to view this log file. If you have a file created by Cumulus 1 (C1), please note that Cumulus 1 is not as fussy as MX about the character used to separate different parts of the date. Also MX uses the locale to decide what character (decimal comma or decimal point) separates integer and decimal parts of numbers, so for MX to read a file created by C1, the MX locale must match the Windows settings. | Both Cumulus 1 and MX have ways to [[Amending dayfile|edit '''dayfile.txt''']] while Cumulus is running. Cumulus 2 does not even allow you to view this log file. If you have a file created by Cumulus 1 (C1), please note that Cumulus 1 is not as fussy as MX about the character used to separate different parts of the date. Also MX uses the locale to decide what character (decimal comma or decimal point) separates integer and decimal parts of numbers, so for MX to read a file created by C1, the MX locale must match the Windows settings. | ||
Please see [[Correcting Extremes]] page for information about fixing where the highest/lowest/total recorded for day has been corrupted by rogue values. | Please see [[Correcting Extremes]] page for information about fixing where the highest/lowest/total recorded for day has been corrupted by rogue values. | ||