[PATCH 2/2] Support for Imperial units on MacDive log import

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Feb 7 12:53:48 PST 2013


Nick Shore <support at mac-dive.com> writes:

> Hey Miika,
>
> Dirk forwarded your emails to me so here goes some clarification -
>
> Internally in MacDive, tankSize and workingPressure are just plain numbers,
> no conversions are performed. For Metric units, the working pressure is
> typically disabled in the ui as it is not used.
>
> I have probably led you slightly astray with the Imperial example I sent
> you. My personal data is metric so I don't provide a working pressure, and
> the tank size is in litres. These are just being exported raw so they
> aren't really correct in that example. Typical data would make more sense I
> think.
>
> So for Metric, treat the tank size as litres, and ignore working pressure.
> For Imperial, treat the tank size as cuft and the working pressure as PSI.
> Hope that helps?  If there's anything I can do to make this easier on your
> end, let me know.

These are the two common standards that we see, so this should be fine.

> I saw your other question about rating - I'm not sure if you wanted info
> from me at all, but the rating is just an integer from 1-5, displayed as
> 1-5 stars in MacDive itself.

That's a perfect match for what we do. Nice.

Thanks for responding here, Nick

/D


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