Kiggs,

Did you ever find the code for Kampala?

I made the switch to Evolution and was looking to take advantage of this
weather lookup.

I have visited the site you mentioned but there is no Kampala code

Joseph

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 12:58, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
> Something had always been bugging me about evolution.  I could not get
> a Ugandan weather summary.
> 
> If you to to Tools ---> Settings --> Summary Preferences --> Weather
> You can choose Africa and have only South Africa (south of the sahara
> as a choice).
> After some googling I found there is file (which in SuSE is in)
> /opt/gnome2/share/evolution/1.4/Locations
> 
> Edit this file and add your cities.  The trick is to get the 4 letter
> code for your city.  I found a web page that gave the 4 letter code as
> the ending of the web page
> http://weatherpixie.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=6b72da40ce24826032e5f0108226a4e0&htm=0&type=&trooper=1&lang=&region=1&country=Uganda&place=HUEN
> So for Entebbe the code is HUEN  for Arua the code is HUAR for Nairobi
> the code is HKJK
> 
> So go down the Location file until you find Morocoo, then do a cut and
> paste and replace with the relevant cities you want.
> 
> make a backup of "Locations" before you edit so if you screw up you
> can backtrack.
> 
> Now I have a huge set of cities.  Will see over the next few days if
> it tells as much truth as our local weather guys.
> 
> Kiggs
> 
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