…… and from my point of view it was trying to disagree with the premise of 'do not change unless you have to' when in fact, for most of the world, life is much much easier if you do change and store data as metric. In particular it is highly likely that most of the world set their stations to display metric even if the native data is US and so it makes logical sense (to me at least) to say that if you display metric set the database to metric and let weewx take care of any device conversions - but keep the database in the units you usually use/display. I think, but cannot recall exactly, that in fact fine offset and its many clones stores data as metric and outputs metric.
Anyways Tom, as I said in the first place, it is not a real issue, but I do feel users should feel free to set the database to whatever units they use, and not feel obliged (because of warnings etc) to have their database in 'alien' units. Moreover, if the database is metric then the default unit groups and units should default to match. It's still great sw and immensely flexible and I love it - even if I do have an occasional whine or winge or whinge or whatever. Maybe another wine is called for. On Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:11:31 UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > No imputations of personal cussedness were implied, more of a suggestion > that it would be nice to see a default of international standards first. > That is all. Your own expertise and background are well known and respected > by anyone who's bothered to inform themselves. Apologies if you thought > otherwise. My suggestion of forking was an expression of annoyance with the > whole business of the US's eccentricity, not on the practical, functional > significance, and I tried to acknowledge and qualify. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
