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20000627: GEMPAK Y2K bug and NSHARP

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  • Subject: 20000627: GEMPAK Y2K bug and NSHARP
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:04:53 -0600
Bill,

The latest version is patched through Patch #16 and
has the Y2K patches applied. It also contains nsharp
in the $NAWIPS/nprogs directory. If you don't have
nsharp, then you probably don't have the Y2K patches either.
Let me know.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, William Gallus wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> At the Unidata workshop, Tony Rockwood told me that he had asked you how to
> repair a bug which showed up on Jan 1 2000.  In our satellite images that we
> create through gempak, the part of the title that used to show the date now
> shows up as:
> 
> GOES8  VIS   d  0   121500    (For 12z on June 27, 2000, for instance).
> 
> A similar thing seems to happen in a sfc map we create that I believe uses 
> nowrad
> data.   How do we fix the problem?
> 
> 
> A final question.......where do we find NSHARP?   Geff said that our version 
> of
> gempak is the latest one, but we seem to be missing NSHARP.
> 
> Bill
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