@TSL and all users of abbreviations in their posts
The WW forum caters for an international public with a lot of Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Korean a.s.o visitors.
Maybe English is “spoken” all over the world when one is on vacation, but please refrain from using abbreviations such as RFE as for over ?50%? of the forum visitors English is NOT their native language.
All those non-native speakers often use translate.google.com But that tool only knows that “RFE” is not English but it uses" Translate from: Haitian Creole" So when I read your post, I assumed it was a typo and ignored it, because my brain knows what it stands for. But my brain got it wrong, it was essential information and it seemed to mean for @TSL and maybe other native english speaking software professionals: “Request for Enhancements”
For me, as an older European person, it definitely stands for RadioFreeEurope, for immigrants to the US => Request For Evidence (RFE)
The other meanings for RFE => RFE - Wikipedia
A search for RFE on this forum yield 33 results of the rfe letters as (part of) a word in posts. Only the last one, the only one with the rfe as a separate word is this topic.
IMHO IWBW NTU abbreviations when we want to make our point.
Wim
As for myself, I work for one of the top computer companies in the world with 135,000+ employees in over 300 countries and the term RFE ( Request for Enhancement ) has always been understood in any conversation I’ve had with anyone anywhere and is considered universal.
That being said … I shall refrain from using any abbreviations in future outside of the work environment in this forum
Suddenly all metar pop-ups, old or new, show a date of 1-1-1970 UTC and an error message when error reporting is on.
And you are the first to notice it? Thanks
First make a copy of the current script and please test this version,
Wim
P.S. “Is this a CheckWX problem” => yes
The date field in the json file now contains something more then the expected string:
Yes the invalid data is still there, so the time fields are more or less valid.
The “garbage in” results in “garbage out” for the time field, but without large error messages.
The unexpected values are still there, but shorter
It may be that Dutch is the only language file with that phrase, it doesn’t appear, e.g., in the current French or German language files. . . I haven’t checked them all. In French and German the entries are just |language|choisir… or |language|sprache
Looks like the metar34.txt has changed again the popup gives error 500 in IE11 and edge says something about humidity and line 103 in the metar_load_funct.php it was ok early this morning http://www.hc-iom.co.uk/pwsWD/index.php