I use mariadb and metric and drive on the left hand side of the road. So far I have survived all of the above.
On Saturday, 12 January 2019 14:23:06 UTC+11, Andrew Milner 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. > -- 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.
