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Time of Peak is not in Timestep increments

A basic question. In the output files (htmls files), sometimes I see that Time of Peak is not in Timestep increments. Timestep of the cases below is 6, so I expected that the Time of Peak is 10-minutes increments, but it was not.

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Why is Time of Peak not in Timestep increments?

I guess Time of Peak is in Detailed Calculation Step increments and I can get Output:Variable at the Time of Peak by selecting Detailed. However, I'm not sure what's the difference between Timestep and Detailed Calculation Step and why Detailed Calculation Step is not based on Timestep. I would appreciate it if someone could explain in more detail.

Time of Peak is not in Timestep increments

A basic question. In the output files (htmls (html files), sometimes I see that Time of Peak is not in Timestep increments. Timestep of the cases below is 6, so I expected that the Time of Peak is 10-minutes increments, but it was not.

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Why is Time of Peak not in Timestep increments?

I guess Time of Peak is in Detailed Calculation Step increments and I can get Output:Variable at the Time of Peak by selecting Detailed. However, I'm not sure what's the difference between Timestep and Detailed Calculation Step and why Detailed Calculation Step is not based on Timestep. I would appreciate it if someone could explain in more detail.

Time of Peak is not in Timestep increments

A basic question. In the output files (html files), sometimes I see that Time of Peak is not in Timestep increments. Timestep of the cases below is 6, so I expected that the Time of Peak is 10-minutes increments, but it was not.

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Why is Time of Peak not in Timestep increments?

I guess Time of Peak is in Detailed Calculation Step increments and I can get Output:Variable at the Time of Peak by selecting Detailed. However, I'm not sure what's the difference between Timestep and Detailed Calculation Step and why Detailed Calculation Step is not based on Timestep. I would appreciate it if someone could explain in more detail.


UPDATE

@shorowit and @Aaron Boranian,

As a test, I tired to get Output:Variable of this idf file at the Time of Peak by selecting Detailed Reporting Frequency. Timestep is 6.

The Time of Peak is 04-SEP-08:09 (09/04 08:09:00), but I couldn't find the time in the csv file.

How can I get Output:Variable at the Time of Peak? Maybe I should make a new post, but it's closely related to my original question.

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