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Fix display far in /year; decide on year definition
This MR fixes a unit conversion bug that incorrectly displayed an event's FAR in per-year units. The database value of far is always in Hz (fingers crossed), but it converted on-the-fly to per-year so it's more easily read by humans on the webpage.
This brings up a larger question, which I will leave to the masses to answer: how many days are in a year?
Ultimately this discrepancy is only going to result in a small decimal place difference on a webpage, but we should at least be consistent. Interested parties, could you please vote below?
Question: Should GraceDB calculate the display year^-1 FAR value using the Julian or civil calendar year? Tagging some pipeline and EMFollow parties. Please place your response in a comment or edit the table with a with your preference. Note that this was coded to be a settings switch in GraceDB so it can in theory be changed, but it's defaulting to the Julian definition at the moment.
Alexander Pace authored