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Re: Still more metar2nc problems

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  • Subject: Re: Still more metar2nc problems
  • Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:20:08 -0700 (MST)
Bryan,

Thanks for the info, I'll look into it starting today. Jan been a wash for
me, AMS, being sick, meetings, etc. I already knew about the perl bug,
but didn't know about the missing reports. If you find any more details
let me know.

Robb...


On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Bryan G. White wrote:

> Rob,
> 
> I've got a Y2k problem and a I don't know what problem with metar2nc
> 
> 1)  Around 0z every day I get files created with "000" as the year....
>     ie. 000013123_metar.nc.  Must be the dreaded perl "2000 = 000" bug I've
>     been squashing in some of my programs.   It only does this after 0z with 
>     data that has a time stamp before ~2345z. 
> 
>     I think the problem is around line #1558 with formating of the year
>     variable. 
> 
> 2)  I can't get the ~23:45-23:59 hour obs to decode.  It's vanishing in thin
>     air.  I don't know what is going on.  I manually decode a file that
>     has a 23:50 ob, but it isn't in the *metar_nc file.  The file has obs from
>     before 0z and after 0z.  It does decode the after 0z obs.
> 
>     It does however show up int the rawmetars.*.nc file.
> 
> 
> Bryan
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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