Station Start Date/Time

Testtags.php.tmpl provides a tag $Startimedate that represents the date/time the station software (in this case Weewx) was started. Weewx does not natively provide such a tag, it only provides $station.uptime which is a formatted textual representation of the time that this instance of Weewx has been running (eg 3 days, 23 hours, 2 minutes). In the interim, the $Startimedate tag is being populated with the $station.uptime string. In order to (correctly) drive the Saratoga templates out of the box we need to derive the date/time that Weewx was started and assign this value to the $Startimedate tag.

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