Lars Olav Torvik’s blog

First I would like to say thank you to everyone posting bugs and problems here on the blog. I do not have time or resources to test this on all combination of OS, coordinates, languages, time zones so your help is important to make this gadget as good as possible.

A new release (1.4.0) is now available for download at weather.larsolavtorvik.com. I planned to do a small bug fix release but when I started coding I found some major issues related to time zones so there are a lot of code changes in this release. Hopefully I have not introduced any new bugs… so please keep me notified here as always if you find any bugs

• Changed the 9 day forecast to a 8 day forecast. There was a problem with the 9th day on some locations and at some times. I solved this by changing it to 8 day instead of 9 day. This might cause some problems with existing gadget you have in the sidebar if you used 9 day. To solve this you can either close the widget and open again, or just go into setting and click ok to save the 8 day flyout.
• Fixed a major problem regarding timezones and UTC. Now all times should be your locale time including summer time. Seems all times I have been showing have been UTC and not CEST as I expected. Sorry about that but I didn’t know the time I got from yr was UTC. Since yr.no do not give hour by hour forecast on the long term forecast the 8 day flyout need to show the forecast for 6,12,18,24 in UTC time. So if you are in CEST now in the summer you will get the times 2,8,14,20 and those times should also be displayed. Feel free to give me feedback if that works as expected for the ones of you not in CEST.
• Hopefully fixed the problem with , and . the Swedish users have been having. I haven’t been able to actually test this, so please tell me if it works or not.
• Added a moon up and down time in settings, default 22:00 to 05:00. In this time period the gadget will show the moon icon instead of sun on all pages.
• The default view of the gadget updates every 30 min to not hammer my server and to not use more resources on your computer then necessary (the first version updated every couple of seconds and caused some problems). If your internet do not connect right away when you turn on your computer that meant it would go 30 minutes until the gadget got the weather or until you opened and closed settings (also open and close the flyout will work on Windows 7 but not Vista). I have changed it so if error it will now update every 2min instead.
• If you opened the gadget for example 12:01. That would mean the main view would update the weather for the next hour at 13:29 since it checked for updated every 30min. Now it should update between 13:00 and 13:02.
• The IP location check I used to find your coordinated and city automatically didn’t work any more so I changed to a different service.
• I have started added some major cities like Stockholm, London, New York etc. All these none Norwegian countries have their country name after the city name and I use the English names like Copenhagen. Not sure if this is something people are interested in but I like to pay attention to the weather for locations I’m about to travel to before the vacation starts I except to be adding more locations later, but it slow and boring work to add locations manually so we will see how much time I want to spend on it!

As I said in the comment for the 1.3.1 release, there are very many Swedish user of this application. If people want this application in Swedish (or other langauges) it is just for you to volunteer to translate it for me and I will include the translation in the next release (as soon as I get 2nd person to validate your translation :-)).

If there are some cities you would like to get included for the next release tell me the name and coordinates and I will add it, unless it is to small and obscure

According to my records there are no outstanding bugs in the gadget now. For some reason I don’t think that will last for long, hehe.