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==Viewing summary figures for a month==
In the '''View''' menu, select ''This month'', and by default a summary for the current calendar month will be calculated mostly from the daily summary log (therefore not including current meteorological day). Some
*For example, where a day number is shown on screen, it is the meteorological day (changing at rollover), but when a timestamp (with time and date) is given in a web tag the date is a calendar date (always changing at midnight).
*As an example applying regardless of rollover time, the screen shows total number of dry or wet days in the month, the web tags report longest dry or wet period in the month.
To view for a different month (or if you use 9am/10am rollover, if '''current local time on the 1st day of a month''' is before rollover time so the log for the current calendar month has not been started), select the month and year required using the options at bottom left, click ''Update Display'' and the revised summary will be calculated. (Alternatively you can select ''This period'' and select a start date and end date then click ''Update Display'' to get the equivalent calculation for part of a month or any other period). By default, without selecting different dates, ''This period'' shows yesterday.
(Above paragraphs originated 2 June 2013)
POSTSCRIPT (17 Nov 2013): The answer at [http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10904 this forum thread] says that the View menu screens report midnight to midnight even when rollover is 9am or 10am, disagreeing with the text above. That suggests none of the content is derived from the daily summary log as each row of that represents rollover time to rollover time. Therefore the above text needs revising by somebody who knows how Cumulus actually works.
==How can Monthly log files be used within Cumulus?==
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