# Restarting Odometer to non-zero value

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/restarting-odometer-to-non-zero-value/299>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [December 7, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/restarting-odometer-to-non-zero-value/299 "2014-12-07T00:05:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/restarting-odometer-to-non-zero-value/299/21 "2025-10-08T20:39:27Z")

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Yay! Can’t wait to try this out when I will be switching between books the next time.

Also to clean up my logs that up to now had 4 datapoints every time I switched between books to a non-zero value. If anybody has also been using the algorithm we figured out in this thread years ago, and your logs looked like this:

`200`  
`0 @TARE`  
`-14`  
`0 @TARE`  
`14`

Here’s the order in which cleaning up this mess to the new order won’t derail you:

1. remove the 0 between the -14 and 14

2. remove the -14

3. add the @TARE tag to 14

4. remove the remaining 0.

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