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#when you do add fields beyond the 14, or however many already exist, be aware that for most derivatives what you add will represent a ''lowest or highest value'' and that must be paired with a time-stamp in the next field.
#*Cumulus will only accept highest/lowest figures if each value has any related time-stamp.
#Time stamp fields must always be in ''format HH:mm'' i.e. 2 digit hour in 24-hour format, followed by a colon, then 2 digit minutes
#*If when editing, you don't know what time to quote, the convention is to use a time-stamp of your roll over time i.e. 00:00, 09:00 or 10:00 if you have not looked up the precise time.▼
#**Be aware you will have problems if you, or your editing software, add seconds.
 
▲#*If when editing, you don't know what time to quote, the convention is to use a time-stamp of your roll over time i.e. 00:00, 09:00, or 10:00, if you have not looked up the precise time.
 
#* Except for wind gust (start of line) where an extra field is fitted in, each time field will immediately follow the value field for that parameter.
 
# Shorter lines can have multiple field separators added at end of row added either when editing within Cumulus or when editing using a spreadsheet tool.
* Times appearing for some of the fields must always be in ''format HH:mm'' i.e. 2 digit hour, followed by a colon, then 2 digit minutes (Be aware you will have problems if you, or your editing software, add seconds). Except for wind gust (start of line), each time field will immediately follow the value for that parameter.
#* Nulls (2 field separators without something between them ',,') are thus allowed at end of line, but are not allowed within the part of the line with values and time-stamps.
* Shorter lines can have multiple field separators added at end of row added either when editing within Cumulus or when editing using a spreadsheet tool. (during editing after all available valid parameters inserted, extra field separators may be added at end of shorter lines inserted by 'Create Missing' or by a spreadsheet as these make all lines end up with same number of fields)
#* Nulls (2 field separators without something between them ',,') are thus allowed at end of line, but are not allowed within the part of the line with values and time-stamps. If you are editing out rogue values and if you do not know the value for a particular field within the line, then type in a zero or 9999 for nulls in integer format and an extreme with opposite value (e.g. -999.9 for a signed decimal maximum, and 9999.9 for a decimal minimum) for nulls in decimal format (replace the full stops with your decimal separator).
**Beware - if you do insert zero or an obviously wrong extreme value, Cumulus will display those in any editing screen where you wish to update the all-time, monthly-all-time, this month, or this year, extremes. This can make editing by picking values in logs harder.
**Cumulus itself will use zero for any parameters (e.g. solar) not provided by your station, and will repeat the last valid value if the station fails to send a value it should provide, so if a station fails to send a value for more than a day, dayfile.txt may show the same value as the previous day.
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