#gets gustspeed and comapares with maxgustspeed
# if gustspeed is larger updated maxgustspeed

import string
import os
import time
import datetime

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()

while 1:
		
        time.sleep(5)
        
        f = open("gustspeed.txt" , "r")
        gustspeed=f.read()
        f.close()

        f = open("maxgustspeed.txt" , "r")
        maxgustspeed = f.read()
        f.close()

        gustspeed = (float(gustspeed))

        maxgustspeed = (float(maxgustspeed))

        print ("gustspeed" , gustspeed)
        print ("maxgustspeed" , maxgustspeed)

        if (gustspeed  >  maxgustspeed):

            print('gs is bigger than mgs')

            maxgustspeed  = gustspeed

            maxgustspeed =  (str(maxgustspeed))

            now = datetime.now()
            current_time  = now.strftime("%d %B, %Y")
            print("time:", current_time)

            f = open("maxgustdate.txt" , "w")
            f.write(current_time)
            f.close()

            f = open("maxgustspeed.txt" , "w")
            f.write(maxgustspeed)
            f.close()
                    
            time.sleep(500)