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 === Output Parameter Differences between Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX (Cumulus 3) ===
-There are a number of differences between Cumulus 1 (C1) and Cumulus MX (MX). C1 can work with times in 14.24 format using a full stop to separate the figures, MX must have ':' between hour and minute numbers.
+There are a number of differences between Cumulus 1 (C1) and Cumulus MX (MX). C1 can work with times in 14.24 format using a full stop ('.') to separate the figures, MX must have colon (':') between hour and minute numbers. But with both flavours you can choose whether 12-hour clock is used with am/pm (in lowercase or capitals) or the 24-hour clock is used. You can choose to include/exclude leading zero for hours. You can only report the hour if you don't care about the minutes, or only report the minutes if you don't need the hour. In most cases you can add seconds to the output, and either milliseconds or microseconds. This does not imply that Cumulus calculates everything every microsecond, in fact many are only calculated once a minute, but the flexibility is there for time outputs.
-The characters used to represent year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, also differ between C1 and MX.
+Some web tags contain dates, or both dates and times, and for these there is flexibility (apart from those with fixed format, these might have ISO, or another format indicator, in their tag name) as to how the date is output. Thus you can choose to include or exclude the year; you can represent month in letters or numbers, and you can vary the order in which elements of the date are shown.
-In Cumulus 1 we are able to use "m" or "M" for two different meanings (minutes or month) depending on context. Similarly, in MX the same character sometimes has two different meanings depending on context, but this applies to lots of characters and the context is whether the character is used on its own or with other characters. '''Sounds confusing?''' Well it is complicated.
+The characters used to represent year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, do differ between C1 and MX. In Cumulus 1 we are able to use "m" or "M" for two different meanings (minutes or month) depending on context. Similarly, in MX the same character sometimes has two different meanings depending on context, but this applies to lots of characters and the context is whether the character is used on its own or with other characters. '''Sounds confusing?''' Well it is complicated.
 ==== Explanation ====