I bought a sunshine duration sensor from Weerhuisje. When integrating it in 
WeeWX I wondered how to call the observation type. There is nothing 
appropriate in the standard schema. I found 2 extensions regarding sunshine 
duration. One of them calls the observation type "sunshine_hours", the 
other one "sunshine_time". 

I would guess it is not generally a good idea to include an underscore in 
the observation type name, as the underscore is used to separate the unit 
from the observation type in the widely used MQTT extension.

And I guess it would be better to have the same name irrespective of the 
data source, which extension or hardware is used.

Another thing is the unit group. I would allocate the sunshine duration to 
group_deltatime, as the output would be something like "8 hours, 45 
minutes, 10 seconds" or so. group_interval would be less appropriate, as 
sunshine duration is not exactly an interval but rather a time period.

After all I am not sure.

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