I have implemented a workaround by putting in conditionals to display power
values greater than 1000W as kW, which avoids the thousands separator
issue. The whole thing is a bit odd, because my locale is US, which I
thought should be using the separators by default.
On Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 8:19:08 PM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote:
> Whole numbers can easily be specified with a custom format. Something like:
>
> $week.power.sum.format("%.0f")
>
> Unfortunately, use of thousands separators depends on the specified locale
> and cannot be overridden. It really should be.
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> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM 'Peter Fletcher' via weewx-development <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Is there a way in the relevant .inc files of overriding the default
>> numeric formatting (which seems to be) defined by the group a data value is
>> included in? The predefined power group appears to want to use one decimal
>> place, and no thousands separator. Because of the magnitude of the numbers
>> I am displaying, I would like to have whole numbers with a thousands
>> separator. The customization section of the manual does not seem to address
>> this particular aspect of customization.
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