[Xastir-Dev] Re: [Xastir] May 4th Tornado Outbreak

[J. Lance Cotton]

On Monday 05 May 2003 17:50, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2003, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> > Not sure at the moment. I'm in a GMT -5 timezone. Would that cause a late
> > or early expiration? I wouldn't notice it anyway, I think, since wxserver
> > sends out the kill packet when an alert expires anyway, right?
>
> No.  We currently ignore kill or cancel packets.
>
> The alert packets can contain a start date/time and an expiration
> date/time.  We use the expiration timestamp to delete it.  If the
> code to do that is wrong, that could explain a few things.

Gotcha. In my area, the NWS frequently will issue a severe thunderstorm watch 
or warning and then cancel it an hour later because it (the weather) didn't 
behave as expected. I guess eventually we should handle kill and cancel 
packets.

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J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
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