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**Consequently, using this feature creates a sudden increase or decrease in the 'Total rainfall counter (content depends on weather station type, might be rainfall total so far this year)' figure stored the next time Cumulus updates its [[Monthly_log_files |log file]] for the current month. | **Consequently, using this feature creates a sudden increase or decrease in the 'Total rainfall counter (content depends on weather station type, might be rainfall total so far this year)' figure stored the next time Cumulus updates its [[Monthly_log_files |log file]] for the current month. | ||
**You still need to manually edit (using an external text editor) the other parameters within that [Rain] section to correct the other rain statistics held in 'today.ini': | **You still need to manually edit (using an external text editor) the other parameters within that [Rain] section to correct the other rain statistics held in 'today.ini': | ||
***last tip time-stamp | ***last tip time-stamp ("LastTip=") | ||
***hourly high amount and time-stamp | ***highest rainfall rate so far today and time-stamp ("High=" and "HTime=") | ||
***consecutive wet/dry days | ***hourly high amount and time-stamp ("HourlyHigh=" and "HHourlyTime=") | ||
***consecutive wet/dry days ("ConsecutiveRainDays=" and "ConsecutiveDryDays=") - remember these counts are to last roll-over, they exclude today | |||
**If you do edit any parameter values remember to ensure the replacement is in exactly same format as before (whether integers, real numbers or a particular format for time-stamps) | |||
**This edit does not affect any derived rainfall values (such as totals for the month or year that are displayed (and output via web-tags)), unless you subsequently close and restart Cumulus the same day to force recalculation of the longer period totals, and to ensure that dayfile.txt is updated correctly at next roll-over. | **This edit does not affect any derived rainfall values (such as totals for the month or year that are displayed (and output via web-tags)), unless you subsequently close and restart Cumulus the same day to force recalculation of the longer period totals, and to ensure that dayfile.txt is updated correctly at next roll-over. | ||
** | **Although rainfall since midnight is stored in the last field of the Cumulus [[Monthly_log_files |log file]] for the current month, manually editing there will not help as Cumulus does not read it from there. If you want to correct it there because you have processes that read this file, then remember you can only safely edit (using a specialist CSV editor, a good text editor, or a programmer's editor like 'Notepad++) that file with Cumulus stopped, as Cumulus demands full access to this file for periodic updating. | ||
=== Editing today.ini or yesterday.ini outside Cumulus === | === Editing today.ini or yesterday.ini outside Cumulus === | ||