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REST API for parsing aviation weather data
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[Feature Request] Age indicator on METAR reports #9

Closed mralext20 closed 6 years ago

mralext20 commented 6 years ago

useful for more easily knowing how old the data received is.

JanC commented 6 years ago

Use the Time property to calculate the date:"Time": "050551Z", Once you have a date, it’s easy to get how old the metar is.

Here is how I parse it in Swift:

https://github.com/JanC/AVWXKit/blob/ae7d98f87401f70e30302b8bf0433ebab9f24616/AVWXKit/Models/MetarDate.swift#L20-L36

mralext20 commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately, the Time property does not include the month or year, making it non trivial around end of month or end of year calculations.

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Use the Time property to calculate the date

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devdupont commented 6 years ago

A pull request was made to AVWX-Engine which added this functionality to the core, but it has not been implemented in the client or on the API yet. I agree that this should be added, and it will be developed from the bottom and make its way into the API.

devdupont commented 6 years ago

This functionality has been added and is currently available on the preview endpoints:

https://avwx.rest/api/preview/metar/KJFK

"time":{"dt":"Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:51:00 GMT","repr":"071351Z"}