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If you discover a rogue measurement (perhaps the wind affected your tiping bucket rain gauge or your weather station just reported a corrupted value), on the day it occured, see [[today.ini]] or [[FAQ]] for further advice. | If you discover a rogue measurement (perhaps the wind affected your tiping bucket rain gauge or your weather station just reported a corrupted value), on the day it occured, see [[today.ini]] or [[FAQ]] for further advice. | ||
If the rogue measurement is discovered some days after it occured, then in many cases it will have affected your highs and lows for the current month, month-by-month, current year, and/or all-time. As first step you should update the appropriate field in the row for the affected date in dayfile.txt | If the rogue measurement is discovered some days after it occured, then in many cases it will have affected your highs and lows for the current month, month-by-month, current year, and/or all-time. As first step you should update the appropriate field in the row for the affected date in dayfile.txt. Once ''dayfile.txt is correct'' the Cumulus editors will allow you to: | ||
* update the highs and lows in [[Alltime.ini]] by choosing ''all time records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. | * update the highs and lows in [[Alltime.ini]] by choosing ''all time records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. See [[Alltimelog.txt]] for current and previous values to help you know what rogue value to hunt for and know what the high/low value was before the rogue affected it. | ||
* update the highs and lows in [[year.ini]] by choosing ''This year's records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. | * update the highs and lows in [[year.ini]] by choosing ''This year's records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. | ||
* update the highs and lows in [[month.ini]] by choosing ''This month's records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. See [[Diags]] for current and previous values of high or low in the current month or the immediate preceding month if the rogue was recorded less than 10 days ago. | * update the highs and lows in [[month.ini]] by choosing ''This month's records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. See [[Diags]] for current and previous values of high or low in the current month or the immediate preceding month if the rogue was recorded less than 10 days ago. | ||
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(Each of these screens is a text editor, and works best when at full screen).'' | (Each of these screens is a text editor, and works best when at full screen).'' | ||
Ideally, you will subsequently try to edit the rogue data for the particular time it was logged see [[Monthly_log_files#Correcting_any_logged_data_problems]], but correcting the daily summary in dayfile.txt must always be the priority. | Ideally, you will subsequently try to edit the rogue data for the particular time it was logged; see [[Monthly_log_files#Correcting_any_logged_data_problems]], but correcting the daily summary in dayfile.txt must always be the priority. | ||
==Editing in Cumulus== | ==Editing in Cumulus== | ||