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There is a handy installation guide [http://sandaysoft.com/download/Cumulus%20basic%20installation%20guide.pdf here] that describes how the requirements vary for each make of weather station. | There is a handy installation guide [http://sandaysoft.com/download/Cumulus%20basic%20installation%20guide.pdf here] that describes how the requirements vary for each make of weather station. | ||
=== Dates === | === Dates (and separator requirements) === | ||
Cumulus does require your '''computer System Short Date''' to use a format with a separator between day, month (in digits) and year. | Cumulus does require your '''computer System Short Date''' to use a format with a separator between day, month (in digits) and year. This separator will be used in the [[:Category:Log_Files|log files]]. | ||
You may need to go into the 'region' settings in the Windows ''Control Panel'', and change the 'short date' format settings to use something valid for the date separator. Cumulus doesn't really care what you use, but certain third party routines in [[:Category:WebTools]] that work on your server or in a user's browser may need to be told what your PC uses in a 'date separator' parameter. | You may need to go into the 'region' settings in the Windows ''Control Panel'', and change the 'short date' format settings to use something valid for the date separator. Cumulus doesn't really care what you use, but certain third party routines in [[:Category:WebTools]] that work on your server or in a user's browser may need to be told what your PC uses in a 'date separator' parameter. | ||
Some characters (like space or comma) will cause problems, and not just in Cumulus. Slashes, full stops, and dashes are the ones usually used. e.g. 'dd/MM/yy', 'dd-MM-yy', 'MM/dd/yy' and 'dd.MM.yy' are acceptable, but 'ddMMyy' or 'dd MM yy' are not suitable as a short date format with Cumulus. Any change to your short date format later (e.g. by [[Moving_cumulus]] to a different machine) is likely to give problems. | Some characters (like space or comma) will cause problems, and not just in Cumulus. Slashes, full stops, and dashes are the ones usually used. e.g. 'dd/MM/yy', 'dd-MM-yy', 'MM/dd/yy' and 'dd.MM.yy' are acceptable, but 'ddMMyy' or 'dd MM yy' are not suitable as a short date format with Cumulus. Any change to your short date format later (e.g. by [[Moving_cumulus]] to a different machine) is likely to give problems. | ||
'''Note for USA:''' Cumulus uses the Windows date formats in most places where it displays a date. This means that it can handle 'MM/dd/yy' as system short date. However (as at version 1.9.3), in the [[:Category:Log_Files|log files]] the date always appears with day before month, and consequently any screen showing timestamps taken from those log files will show dates in that format. Also on the main screen where the month appears in full, it is always between day of month and 4-digit year. On your web pages, the date format in all timestamps can be configured to your preference using 'format=mm/dd' [note: dates are in 'recent', 'month', 'year' and 'monthly' timestamp webtags, but not included for 'today' and 'yesterday' observation timestamps (as these only contain time use '<#today format=mm/dd/yyyy>', '<#metdate format=mm/dd/yyyy>' '<#yesterday format=mm/dd/yyyy>', '<#metdateyesterday format=mm/dd/yyyy>' where the '/yyyy' is optional in all cases)]. | |||
== Configuration: Settings == | == Configuration: Settings == | ||