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David, COMET did notifyme of the availability for Garp 2.1 on late on the day Dec 17 just before I left for Christmas. I will Make sure that the 2.1 distribution does address your problem and make a release. Steve Chiswell >From: David Ovens <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 199912292227.PAA23439 >Unidata Support wrote: >> >> >From: David Ovens <address@hidden> >> >Organization: University of Washington >> >Keywords: 199912291618.JAA09839 GARP Y2K >> >> David- >> >> >I have generated some GEMPAK files with dates of 000101/1200 F00 >> >through F12. Garp is labelling the date as Jan 01 1970, but is >> >listing these times after 991229/ stuff in the "Model Plan View" >> >window. So, it looks like part of it thinks it's the year 2000 while >> >another part thinks it's 1970. Any idea on how to easily fix this? >> >> Steve Chiswell is out of town until next week and he knows the most >> about GARP's inner workings. In the mean time, can you put one of >> your grid files out on an FTP site so I can download it and take >> a look? For the files we have that have forecast periods into >> the new year, the labelling is correct. But they all have analysis >> times before the new year. >> >> I'm a little unclear about what you mean in the second sentence. >> Could you please clarify this? >> >> Don Murray > >Don, > I have placed two Y2K files into ftp.atmos.washington.edu in directory >ovens/. They are titled 2000010112_mm5d1.gem and >2000010112_mm5d2.gem. > >As you note, cross-over dates are working fine. > >As for the 2nd sentence, if you pull up the "Model Plan View" widget >in GARP, the data for the model you select is listed in date order >991227 follows 991226 (and so on). One good thing is that 000101 >follows 991228. In the plot that is generated in GARP, however, the >date label is Jan 01 1970 for those 000101 files. > >Thanks for looking into this. It sounds like we'll probably just have >to live with it for the near future, which is no big deal. > >David > >-- > >David Ovens e-mail: address@hidden >(206) 685-8108 >Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 351640 >University of Washington >Seattle, WA 98195 > >Subject: Re: 19991229: GARP is not quite Y2K compliant! >To: address@hidden (Unidata Support) >Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:04:13 -0800 (PST) > >Don, > >We are running on SUN's Solaris 2.6 using GARP v2.02 under >/home/disk/ldm/NAWIPS-5.4.12/bin/sol/garp. We also see the same >behavior on DEC (OSF1 V5.0 910 alpha). > >Thanks again, > >David >-- > >David Ovens e-mail: address@hidden >(206) 685-8108 >Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 351640 >University of Washington >Seattle, WA 98195 >