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== My monthly and/or annual rainfall totals are wrong  ==
== My monthly and/or annual rainfall totals are wrong  ==


The monthly and annual rainfall totals are calculated from today's rain total in [[today.ini]] and the daily totals in [[Dayfile.txt]].  There is a built in editor for ''Today's rain''. The format of the dayfile.txt file is in the help file, in the section “Data log file format”, or [[Dayfile.txt|here]], to edit it:
The monthly and annual rainfall totals are calculated from [[FAQ#My_station_invented_some_rain_that_didn.27t_really_occur.2C_and_I_want_to_set_it_to_zero_.28or_some_other_figure.29 |today's rain total]] in [[today.ini]] and the daily totals in [[Dayfile.txt]].  There is a built in editor for ''Today's rain''. The format of the dayfile.txt file is in the help file, in the section “Data log file format”, or [[Dayfile.txt|here]], to edit it:
* Optionally stop Cumulus and use an external editor to edit the daily totals in dayfile.txt until your monthly and annual totals are correct.  
* Optionally stop Cumulus and use an external editor to edit the daily totals in dayfile.txt until your monthly and annual totals are correct.  
* Alternatively, you can use the built-in ''dayfile.txt'' editor to amend the daily totals.
* Alternatively, you can use the built-in ''dayfile.txt'' editor to amend the daily totals.
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