[Equest-users] Leap Year 2012 Feb 29th Omitted & Day Types

Brian Fountain bfountain at greensim.com
Tue Jan 10 11:20:16 PST 2012


Essentially, the year in eQUEST sets the starting day of the week for 
Jan 1st.  In 2012, Jan 1st was a Sunday so the simulation will start on 
a Sunday.  eQUEST/DOE-2 does not "do" leap years.  The weather data is 
always 8760 hours/year (not 8784 as 2012 would have).



On 1/10/2012 2:06 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>
> The simulation file I created with a simulation year of 2012 does not 
> include Feb. 29^th -- Leap Year.
>
> Additionally, can someone clarify the codes for "Day/Type", the 4^th 
> column in the hourly report file? For simulation year 2012, January 
> 1^st is listed as Day/Type "7". Global variables 43 and 45 describe 
> items with "7" as Saturday. Obviously, January 1^st this year was a 
> Sunday. The hourly report Global Variable #45 is correct as a "1".
>
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