Ventusky – Weather data visualization

Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by davidjgraph on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:47AM (#13559711)

Very nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-)

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by patatino on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:49AM (#13559722)

My default was celsius. Firefox, language de

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by wazari972 on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:53AM (#13559746)

Connected from France, Firefox in english, default was °F

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by GrantSolar on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:37AM (#13560032)

Is that localisation EN-US or EN-GB?

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by lorenzhs on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:04AM (#13560718)

It's °C for me with EN-GB

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by RandyRanderson on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:57PM (#13561702)

deg F,

windows: en-ca chrome: EN-US Physically in Canada

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by GFischer on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:32AM (#13560000)

Chrome in English, from Uruguay, default was ºF

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by oliv__ on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:01AM (#13559803)

Same here.

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by lucideer on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:01AM (#13559808)

Connected from Ireland, Firefox in English, default was °F

Possibly the locale detection is limited/imperfect, with °F as a fallback.

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by hobarrera on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:43PM (#13565100)

Using ºF is an odd fallback, considering it's just one country that uses it (just make sure detection works ok for it and you're done).

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by sidarape on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:28AM (#13560396)

You can see the available locales in the setting panel.

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by sambe on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:54AM (#13559750)

Also Celsius for me, seems likely to be region/locale based (as it should be, I'd say).

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by TeMPOraL on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:41AM (#13560514)

Call me weird, but I hate when a program or service uses regions or locales to determine stuff like temperatures or languages.

First of all, it often does it wrong - especially when using geographical location, which is one of the dumbest idea I've seen in computing. GPS fails when people are traveling (just because I'm in Germany right now, doesn't mean I want to see websites in German, etc.). GeoIP fails for various reasons, including VPNs and weird ISP shenanigans.

Second of all, as a person fluent in English, I especially don't want to see a translation of your originally English site. Most software and website translations suck hard. My most common gripe: using the same word in translated language for things named by different words in original, or vice versa.

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by pmoriarty on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:14AM (#13560809)

To generalize this: when programs try to be clever, they often wind up being stupid.

I'd personally prefer that programs just acknowledge they're stupid and give me, the user, more control.

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by GrantSolar on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:43AM (#13560066)

On the topic of localisation, I really love how it has the local names for places (Roma, Bruxelles, etc.)

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by hobarrera on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:42PM (#13565094)

Firefox en english (the default, not en_GB), Celsius by default. (geographically in Argentina).

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by tomw2005 on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:10AM (#13559858)

Connected from UK with Chrome, language DE. Celsisus was default.

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by lucideer on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:07AM (#13559843)

If ISO dates is a measure for being in the 21st century, it should probably really be defaulting to Kelvin, no? 8-)

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Re:Ventusky – Weather data visualization by ska on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:11AM (#13559867)

No. Kelvin was never intended for this sort of use. ISO dates were.

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