SkywarnPlus checks to make sure the alerts it receives are truly "active", by ignoring an alert if the current system time is not between the alert "onset" and "ends" time.
System time is returned in UTC, but the NWS provides the "onset" and "end" times in the format of the time zone which the alerts are local to.
Need to convert alert "onset" and "ends" times to UTC before comparison.
Mason10198
commented
1 year ago
SkywarnPlus checks to make sure the alerts it receives are truly "active", by ignoring an alert if the current system time is not between the alert "onset" and "ends" time.
System time is returned in UTC, but the NWS provides the "onset" and "end" times in the format of the time zone which the alerts are local to.
Need to convert alert "onset" and "ends" times to UTC before comparison.