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Weather Station Hardware => Davis Instruments Weather Stations => Topic started by: Old Tele man on January 01, 2018, 04:38:18 PM

Title: UTC rain reset
Post by: Old Tele man on January 01, 2018, 04:38:18 PM

Anybody else notice that their annual rain total values disappeared long before midnight on 31-December? Apparently, it resets on UTC time, so you effectively 'lose' hours of data before midnight when the New Year begins at local time.

Not a problem here (no rain/snow in months), but could be unsettling elsewhere.

Title: Re: UTC rain reset
Post by: CW2274 on January 01, 2018, 04:45:18 PM

Earles, not positive, but I believe mine waited to midnight local.

Title: Re: UTC rain reset
Post by: Mattk on January 01, 2018, 04:46:24 PM

Where did this occur, local or online?

Based on that scenario then it would mean you might also gain hours?

Title: Re: UTC rain reset
Post by: Old Tele man on January 01, 2018, 05:01:49 PM

It happened on my Vue console -- I noticed it had reset to 0.00 (was reading 7.01) about 2 hours BEFORE local midnight, because I was up getting ready to sip some bubbly to usher out the old year and welcome in the New Year.

I assume it's an "idiosyncrasy" of the dependence upon using UTC world around.

Title: Re: UTC rain reset
Post by: CW2274 on January 01, 2018, 05:03:48 PM

I was referring to WL, but that should be the same as the console.