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Question of Mental State Don Stephens Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:04:41 -0800

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Hi:

Could someone comment on my logic here? I am creating a string from my
weather station to be passed to another program. In this string I need to
have a numerical value for the hour. Here is Mark's values for the Hour
Item, and below is my attempt to create a number value (Hour#) to reflect
these states.

State names/values:
 12AM (0)     6AM ( 6)    12PM (12)     6PM (18)
  1AM (1)     7AM ( 7)     1PM (13)     7PM (19)
  2AM (2)     8AM ( 8)     2PM (14)     8PM (20)
  3AM (3)     9AM ( 9)     3PM (15)     9PM (21)
  4AM (4)    10AM (10)     4PM (16)    10PM (22)
  5AM (5)    11AM (11)     5PM (17)    11PM (23)
           None (24)

To create the string that is sent to my other program I'm using the
following logic.

If         Hour                 Is Not     12AM
Then       Hour#                Set        Hour
Else       Hour#                Set        24

So...If the hour is 1:00AM then the hour# is 1, and so on. However, if the
hour is 12AM then the hour# is 24. I think my logic is screwed up What
happens at 12:59 here?

My problem is that at 12:59 the program receiving the string created in ECS
stops. I think it is getting screwed up by my implementation seen above.

Any comments? (Please..be kind)

Don

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