Re: Odd behavior of metar2nc.new on lead4

• To: Tom Baltzer <tbaltzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Odd behavior of metar2nc.new on lead4
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:01:53 -0600 (MDT)

Tom,

i don't know how this is happening, but i tightened down the code so it
only processes past time reports. this should solve the problem. i
installed the fix on lead4, can you keep an eye on this so that i know
if the fix worked.

thanks,
robb...





On Tue, 9 May 2006, Tom Baltzer wrote:

> Hi Robb,
>
>
>
> I was looking into the output from the metar2nc new decoder and discovered
> that it seemed to be off by a month (i.e. it was writing to a file
> w/20060409 in its name) - this had been going on for a while as demonstrated
> in the following listing:
>
>
>
> [ldm@lead4 metar]$ ls -tl *.nc | more
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff   311580 May  9 13:18 20060509_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 71413740 May  9 13:17 20060409_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 78901764 May  9 05:35 20060408_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 80679420 May  8 06:52 20060407_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 79978068 May  7 10:35 20060406_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 81510924 May  6 13:44 20060405_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 78595764 May  5 01:25 20060404_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 80742252 May  4 13:26 20060403_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 79643508 May  3 10:03 20060402_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 79565580 May  2 06:26 20060401_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 18248892 May  1 09:34 20060330_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 38329428 May  1 05:56 20060329_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 41258868 Apr 30 18:42 20060331_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff   452340 Apr 30 17:45 20060501_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 37247412 Apr 30 17:44 20060430_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 39197244 Apr 30 12:29 20060429_metar.nc
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      leadstaff 39166644 Apr 29 12:41 20060428_metar.nc
>
>
>
> Note that I restarted the ldm and it picked up just fine with 20060509 for
> the first file as expected.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tom.
>
>
>
>

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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