As you have confirmed python will quite happily parse a numeric date-time
given a suitable format string. In this case the problem is within
wee_import itself; wee_import assumes that a numeric date-time field is a
unix epoch timestamp and uses the raw date-time data as is (WeeWX records
date-time data as unix epoch timestamps). Ultimately when WeeWX tries to
interpret this raw data as a unix epoch timestamp the result is a nonsense
date-time well into the future.
This will need a change to wee_import, let me think about how to best do
this.
Gary
On Saturday, 11 March 2023 at 20:37:13 UTC+10 William wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to import historical data into my new weewx installation.
> Following the documentation and the sample import config, I can't seem to
> get the date and time to parse correctly. I'm using weewx version 4.10.2
> and wee_import version 0.7, as both were pulled down through the apt
> package repository today.
>
> In my archive data, my date and time are stored in a RecDate field and
> uses the format YYYYmmddHHMM. Example: 201105060957 would be more
> appropriately readable as 2011-05-06 09:57.
>
> In the import configuration file I have raw_datetime_format = %Y%m%d%H%M,
> and in the FieldMap stanza, dateTime = RecDate, unix_epoch.
>
> When I do a dry run on a single record, it shows a wild date (year 8342!)
> with the message:
>
> Unique records processed: 1; Last timestamp: 8342-10-07 16:55:57 EDT
> (201105060957)
>
> When I run it on a different data set it sees 202303110321 as timestamp:
> 8380-09-24 00:25:21 EDT
>
> Am I missing something in the config? I'm fairly certain the Python
> strptime format is correct, and have tested it in a Python script:
> dateTime = datetime.strptime('201105060957', '%Y%m%d%H%M')
>
> returns
>
> datetime.datetime(2011, 5, 6, 9, 57)
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
>
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