[Xastir] Wx Alerts

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Chip Griffin wrote:

> I haven't tried that yet, but if I quit and restart Xastir a whole bunch of
> expired weather alerts appear. I understand reading in the log file, but
> shouldn't it automatically filter out or otherwise dispense with ones that are
> expired???

It tries to, but as I recall there's not enough date information in
the packets.  Xastir has to make judgement calls whether it's a
future alert, and expired alert, or a present alert.

I suppose we could check timestamps on the log files to determine
whether they're too old and we shouldn't read them in at all.  I'm
not sure whether we do that now:  I'd have to look at the code.

If you don't run Xastir often and it doesn't check the timestamps on
those logfiles, the best option would be to turn off "WX Alert
Logging".

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