On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 19:23:05 -0800 (PST) Andrew Milner <andrew.s.r.mil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having read for the umpteenth time recently comments implying that > there is no need to change the database units from US to Metric I > thought it was time to give my pennyworth. IMHO there is every > reason in the world to change the units if one is living in the rest > of the world outside the US. When (not if) one has to look at the > database to resolve an issue using sqlite3 or MySQL there is nothing > worse than being faced with a load of data which is unrecognisable > and means nothing since the units are such they are never seen during > daily life. pressures of 30.xxxx mean nothing when daily pressures > are in mbar and temperatures are meaningless when in farenheit and > daily weather temperatures are in Celsius. IMHO if you live outside > the US your database should be Metric or Metricwx so that the data > becomes meaningful when viewed directly. > > I agree that for the purposes of weewx this is not necessary as all > conversions will happen automatically. > > One final thing which I have done to my MySQL database is to redefine > the columns to limit the number of decimal places to 2 in most > cases. This makes viewing with MySQL directly much much more > readable and gets rid of the totally unnecessary additional decimal > places with little (if any) effect on weewx. > +1 Liz -- 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.
