[Geysers] Coding times for overnight eruptions in Geysertimes

[Dan.Miller at innovaltec.com]

Perhaps better to use 9999A as it is a time that cannot exist (unlike 
midnight which is 0000)

Just a thought

Dan Miller (dan.miller at innovaltec.com)





From:   Will Boekel <wolveslax65 at comcast.net>
To:     Listserve <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>, 
Date:   02/01/2013 02:52
Subject:        [Geysers] Coding times for overnight eruptions in 
Geysertimes
Sent by:        <geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu>



  I was corrected on the chat page today that the current practice is to 
put 0000? for overnight times. This shows that people enter these 
different ways and interpret them differently. So if someone new comes in 
we have to explain the practice to them. Also as the database grows, when 
you pull the data for a long term analysis but then have to read all the 
comments on the questionable entries to figure out what it meant it 
becomes too much
work for little return. By adding an ?A? it will make the data much 
clearer at the very top level so data can be pulled and ran quickly 
without the need to read every comment in a big data set.
 
Also just to be clear since I feel that I could have written the original 
post better, 0000A means you know the geyser erupted but you don?t have 
the exact time.
 
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