[rrd-users] Re: How to get accurate weekly averages

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:56:58PM +0200, Jani Muuriaisniemi wrote:

> If I were to draw a graph of the total amount of data transferred with a
> step of one week, I would naturally like the week to start from Monday and
> end on Sunday. But, so far I have been unable to get this done.
> 
> Even if the timeperiod between Starttime and Endtime is an even number of
> seconds divideable by the amount of seconds per week, and Starttime is set
> on a Monday, the weekly averages are still not calculated as wanted.

You want to specify start and end with a resolution of one hour.
Therefore you want to use an RRA with a resolution of one hour.

What is "the start of Monday" ?  It will differ between Europe and the US,
it will differ between winter and summer.

RRDtool works with UTC.  If you specify *your* local time monday 00:00,
it will most likely not be UTC 00:00.  If it is, this will change in
6 weeks.

Another problem with your approach:  RRDtool works with intervals of
"n" seconds since January 1st, 1970, UTC.  If you have an RRA with
a resolution of one week (604800 seconds),  the intervals will run from
n*604800 to (n+1)*604800.  Monday 00:00, even when it is UTC, will most
likely not be n*604800 seconds since the epoch.

Again: you want to specify your start and end time with a resolution
of one hour so you're going to need to use an RRA with a resolution
of one hour.

One last remark:  For the few living in a time zone that is not a
whole number of hours away from UTC, read "half an hour" where I
wrote "one hour".

HTH
Alex
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