On Friday, 11 November 2016 17:26:40 UTC, wrote:
Having just read the piece on observation timing on the FAQ pages, I wanted to see what the majority do with regards timings.

10 or so years ago, as a teenager with admittedly not much of an eye for detail, I used to take my readings at 1800 local time each day, noting the max/mins for the previous 24 hours. However, having had a little look on various sites I see 0900 local seems to be a more common time, along with splitting the climatological day into two periods. Or is a "normal" day seen as acceptable (00-24 local)?

Because the first thing an academic would do on turning up for work would be dealing with his weather station data. It would have become the norm. Having an amateur station would require you had a cushy number to copy that timing.

These days where the flowerpotmen are playing fast and loose with important artefacts for political stupidities, you can so whatever you think fit.