Topic: "Weather Display weather data Not Current"

[K6GKM]

Hello all,

I have an interesting mystery involving timestamps and date formats on my Saratoga / Weather-Display template site. 

Issue #1 - https://camwx.com/wxstatus.php is showing that my Weather Display weather data is out of date.  My testtags.php is uploading on schedule every 5 minutes, and as best I can tell, the $date and $time contained therein are correct, which is what include-wxstatus.php tests for, if I'm reading my PHP correctly.

Issue #2 - All the variables on my https://camwx.com/wxtrends.php page are showing correctly except for one: Date of last rainfall (never mind the old data warning at the top due to the perviously mentioned out-of-date weather data).  It should be 5 June, 2020.  But instead it's showing 6 May, 2020, which is 6/5/2020 inverted.  I double-checked all the date/time variables in my settings.php, and they all look exactly correct.  I even checked the unit settings in my Weather-Display program control panel to be sure it was formatting the date correctly when it created a testtags file.

I'm stumped.  Pertinent script files included. Any input is appreciated!

Thanks,
Grant

[saratogaWX]

Re (1) the data out of date.
Your testtags.php shows

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$time =  '3:30 PM'; // current time
$date =  '6/20/2020'; // current date
while your Settings.php shows

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$SITE['WDdateMDY'] = false; // for WD date format of month/day/year.  =false for day/month/year
  Since your date format is mm/dd/yyyy, change that to

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$SITE['WDdateMDY'] = true; // for WD date format of month/day/year.  =false for day/month/year
and that will fix the date issue.

for (2), the testags.php shows

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$dateoflastrainalways = '6/5/2020';
If you change the $SITE['WDdateMDY'] in Settings.php per the above, that will be shown correctly also (as June 5, 2020) instead of May 6, 2020.

One setting to rule them all...

[K6GKM]

That variable in settings.php had eluded me!  I knew it had to be something simple.   

Thanks, Ken. 

-Grant