On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 1:46:03 AM UTC-4, gjr80 wrote: > > >> >> Oh yes - somewhere in the instructions (or help, not sure which) - the >> time in the --date command is in brackets. I presume this is because the >> time is optional - but why the brackets? An option in syntax definitions >> is (I thought) indicated by | whilst the inclusion of brackets implies the >> time should be enclosed in brackets - which is wrong (I think). >> >> > It is the Utilities guide and the --help usage text. The hh:mm in a range > is optional. I will get some input from Tom and Matthew, can you have > nested [ ], if not you end up with a very long line. >
the current (explicit) form is: [--date=YYYY/MM/DD|'YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm'|'YYYY/MM/DD (hh:mm)-YYYY/MM/DD (hh:mm)'] technically that should be: [--date=(YYYY/mm/dd|'YYYY/mm/dd HH:MM'|'YYYY/mm|dd (HH:MM)-YYYY/mm/dd (HH:MM)')] a more compact form would be: [--date="YYYY/mm/dd[ HH:MM][-YYYY/mm/dd[ HH:MM]]"] with the caveat that quotes are required only if the date string contains any spaces. note that month should be mm because minutes is MM m -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
