I have continued to read about creating mobile-optimal stylesheets with CSS and slowly experiment with different changes for the homepage. Originally I was making changes to a copy of the computer screen version stylesheet, but today I decided to start building a new stylesheet from scratch, since I think very few of the styling elements used on the screen are practical for the phone. I have also been looking at various weather sites’ forecast information, and most do seem to come from the National Digital Forecast Database; I’m still trying to figure out exactly which of the database’s resources they use. One option is definitely to pull text off the XML of NWS’s forecast page for Northfield, though I’m thinking there’s probably an easier/more reliable way to get the information. At this point I can find next to nothing online regarding how daylight savings time affects weather record-keeping. I’m not sure that there is a standard. We might need to make our own decision about what we’re going to consider a day, note it somewhere on the website, and just be consistent about it. From what I’ve read about DST, I don’t know whether it makes much sense to account for it in historical records since it wasn’t adopted in the US until 1918 and it effective dates have changed numerous times since then. Changing our definition of when a day is at various points in our records seems like it could add a lot of complications. Thoughts?
-Katherine