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Historical "Current" Conditions

Parker

April 02, 2022 16:07

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I'm building a simple web app project to give the basic weather conditions for a location at a start time and end time. 

It seems the logic for "current" historical conditions from the Timeline API is the base hour of the inputted time, so if the time is 09:59:59, it will give the conditions for 09:00:00 rather than 10:00:00. Is this correct?

I want to make sure before I build my own time rounding logic that there is no built in functionality to give the data closest to the inputted time. 

Is there sub-hour historical data available?

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  Support Agent April 03, 2022 01:50 Official comment

  Thank you for your question. Yes you are correct that current time requests are truncated to the previous hour. We have passed on your feedback to our documentation team to correct the timeline documentation.

  Sub hourly is currently available via our history API endpoint (https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/weather-api-documentation/). Please note that sub-hourly data requires a corporate subscription (see https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-editions)

  Regards

  Visual Crossing Support

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  Parker April 02, 2022 16:15

  https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/

  The results are returned in the ‘currentConditions’ field and are rounded to the closest hour.

  This says that it rounds to the closest hour but in my tests is seems to always round the time down.

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  Support Agent April 04, 2022 18:37

  Yes - this is indeed wrongly stated in the documentation. Thanks again for pointing it out - the information has been passed to the documentation team to correct the entry.

  Regards

  Visual Crossing Support