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 ===Today.ini===
-As explained earlier, these tags relate to latest [[Meteorological day]], except for Sunshine Hours which relate to latest Calendar day.
+As explained earlier, these tag names relate to latest [[Meteorological day]] and they are populated from information held in [[today.ini]], as the sub-section title suggests; except for Sunshine Hours which relate to latest Calendar day and can be taken from either [[yesterday.ini]] or "today.ini" depending on (respectively) whether before or after rollover time if that is not midnight.
-Information for these tags is taken from [[today.ini]], hence the sub-section title, although Sunshine Hours can be taken from either [[yesterday.ini]] or "today.ini" depending on (respectively) whether before or after rollover time if that is not midnight.
+Where a tag name reports a value specific to a past time in today-so-far, there will also be a tag name that can give the time of day, shown in same row of table below. For those that cover whole day so far, the final column contains "n/a". Please note none of the time tags can be modified by output parameters to give a date, but they can be changed from the default time format that is 'H:mm' (24 hour clock notation without leading zero for hour) for Cumulus 1 and MX.
-Many of these web tags were used on the supplied '''todayT.htm''' template in the legacy "/web" folder.  If you are using MX, the today and yesterday page in the [[MX_Administrative_Interface]] shows similar information by using the [[Cumulus_MX_Local_API#Today.2FYesterday_Data|local application programming interface]].
+Also as explained earlier, there is some inconsistency in naming with "T" not included in all tag names, "T" is used in conjunction with "H" or "L" as a suffix for extreme values/time-stamps, but a prefix "T" can identify today's value, or prefix "T" can signify a time-stamp.
-For web tags that report values that refer to a particular time of day, there is a corresponding web tag that can give the time of day, shown in same row of table below. For those that cover whole day so far, the final column contains "n/a".
+In the legacy '''todayT.htm''' template, in the legacy "/web" folder, use was made of a selection of the tag names listed here.
-Please note none of the time web tags can be modified by output parameters to give a date, but they can be changed from the default time format that is 'H:mm' (24 hour clock notation without leading zero for hour) for Cumulus 1 and MX.
+If you are using MX, the today and yesterday page in the [[MX_Administrative_Interface]] shows similar information by using the [[Cumulus_MX_Local_API#Today.2FYesterday_Data|local application programming interface]].
-If you are using output modifiers to change how the time is reported, be careful to use ones that work for the flavour of Cumulus you are using ('H' and 'h' are same for Cumulus 1, but the two codes represent different formats for MX; MX insists on 'mm' being used for minutes, but the 'NN' and 'nn' used by Cumulus 1 could be replaced by 'mm' if they followed an hour specifier).
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