[rrd-users] How is the "now" value is calculated

[Simon Hobson]

"Silver, Jonathan" <jonathan.silver at unify.com> wrote:

> But the graphs for last day, week, month and year show really off values for "now". 
> 
> Does it make sense to show this value on those screens at all?

Probably not - but it's usually "difficult" to have different graphs for different timespans. For my hand crafted CGI scripts it's not too hard (just stick a "if <condition> then add some gprint statements" in the code), but with something like Cacti there is nowhere near the ability to do that.