If not epoch the at least iso8601 date/time, when you call yoursef scientist!!!!
LOL On Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 17:29 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM Michael Barnes <barnmich...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I have a script that is supposed to grab a weather feed and return the > > current temperature. If grabs the file fine, but does not return the > > temperature. > > > > Here is the line that fails: > > > > T=$(grep "<temp_f>" KEUG.xml |cut -c10- |cut -d '.' -f 1) > > Out of curiosity, why are you truncating the fractional part? > > <pet-peeve> > Also, there is a special place in hell for whoever didn't include an > easily handled timestamp format (like unix time, seconds since > 1970-01-01 in UTC, or similar) in that XML. Even: > > <observation_time_rfc822>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:53:00 > -0700</observation_time_rfc822> > > is obnoxious, although tools exist, e.g. > > $ date -d "$(curl -s > https://forecast.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KPDX.xml | xmlstarlet sel > -t -v "//observation_time_rfc822" -)" +%s > 1752785580 > > Hey, NWS person! You had a nice representation in your computer, and > now you are just being cruel to anyone who wants to do anything useful > with your machine readable turd! > > /me shakes angry fist at cloud. > </pet-peeve> > > -- > Russell Senior > russ...@personaltelco.net >
