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 ==Viewing summary figures for a month or period==
-To view a summary of dayfile.txt for a month, calendar year or selected period, use ''This month'' (choose any month, default is month specified in Windows system date), ''This year'' (choose any year, default is year specified in Windows system date), or ''This period'' (choose any start and end dates, default is yesterday calculated from Windows system date), within the '''View''' menu.
+To view a summary of dayfile.txt for a month, calendar year or selected period, use ''This month'' (choose any month, default is month from your computer system date), ''This year'' (choose any year, default is year from your computer system date), or ''This period'' (choose any start and end dates, default is yesterday calculated from your computer system date), within the '''View''' [[Cumulus_Screenshots#File.2FEdit.2FHelp_Menu|menu]].
+*Remember the daily summary log has its records based on rollover to rollover days.
+*In all cases they exclude the today details that are not stored on dayfile.txt until the end of day rollover.
+*If you use 9am or 10am rollover, and choose '''View''' ''This period'' between midnight and your 9am/10am rollover any day your latest meteorological day is the yesterday in terms of your computer system date that 'This period' tries to display as its default day, and the display will initially appear blank.
+*If you use 9am or 10am rollover, and choose '''View''' ''This month'' before your 9am/10am rollover on the first day of a new calendar month your latest meteorological month is different to your computer system month 'This month' tries to display as its default month, and the display will initially appear blank.
 Most of the displayed results are for observations in the daily summary log, but a few parameters are not in that log and are derived from the monthly logs (e.g. average wind speed) or the weather diary (e.g. count of days with snow lying).
-*Remember the daily summary is based on rollover to rollover days.
+*On the screen displayed after selecting ''This month'', you can change the month and year required using the options at bottom left, click ''Update Display'' and the revised summary will be calculated.
-*In all cases they exclude the today details that are not stored on dayfile.txt until the end of day rollover.
+*On the screen displayed after selecting ''This year'', you can change the year required using the options at bottom left, click ''Update Display'' and the revised summary will be calculated.
-*If you use 9am or 10am rollover, and choose '''View''' ''This period'' before your 9am/10am rollover your latest meteorological day is the yesterday that 'This period' tries to display as its default day, and the display will appear blank.
+*On the screen displayed after selecting ''This period'', you can change the start date and end date then click ''Update Display'' to get the equivalent calculations displayed for part of a month or any other period.
-*For '''View''' menu, after selecting ''This month'', you can change the month and year required using the options at bottom left, click ''Update Display'' and the revised summary will be calculated.
-*For '''View''' menu, after selecting ''This year'', you can change the year required using the options at bottom left, click ''Update Display'' and the revised summary will be calculated.
-*For '''View''' menu, after selecting ''This period'', you can change the start date and end date then click ''Update Display'' to get the equivalent calculation for part of a month or any other period.