ated Python type <span class="code">datetime</span>. Very easy to manipulate, but it is a big
                    opaque number.
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                <td class="text_highlight">LOOP packet</td>
                <td>The real-time data coming off the weather station. The terminology "LOOP" comes from the Davis
                    series. A LOOP packet can contain all observation types, or it may contain only some of them
                    ("Partial packet")