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Michael,<BR>
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Just a couple quick comments:<BR>
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> A couple of small items came up while writing code that I think we might<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>> like to change in our design document. In the methods for setting and<BR>
> getting time intervals, I think the year (YYYY) and month (MM) arguments<BR>
> don't make sense (if I set an interval of one month, how many days are<BR>
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We often do monthly or annual diagnostics (monthly/annual means in particular) where we need to divide by the number of seconds in the current month/year, so a month or year time interval would refer to current (or maybe previous depending on when the flag is triggered) month or year. If it’s too problematic, we can get these numbers in other ways (e.g. difference two time instances), so it’s not critical.<BR>
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On a recurring alarm, an end time might be handy, but you can also remove the alarm if no longer needed.<BR>
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Phil<BR>
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