> A far simpler solution is; it's just a counter that resets every hour.
No it's not. >> > 011111244445678888889998767777765555553444335888889899987677 >> > 010000120001121000121000012000110000010100012300011010001210 ------------ ------------ Look approximately halfway: 98767 Then look below: 00012 The "counter" goes from 7 to 6, as a result of rainfall 1 being added and 2 being removed from the window. If you treat this as a counter being reset every hour, you would get negative rainfall, or counter overflow with the resulting huge flood, or rates becoming unknown because of sanity checks. _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users