First thing I did was set my db to metric, no issues at all. Freedom of choice. Perhaps the "warning" is a little over the top but common sense should prevail.
Colin On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, 07:59 Andrew Milner <[email protected] wrote: > …… 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. > -- 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.
