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John, It appears you defined the date format of the time field as "MM/dd/yy HH:mm z", but in your data file, the times look like this "1/31/1977 14:26:15". So the format of the time field should really be "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss", I would expect. Best, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: John Cannon > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: University of Houston > Package Version: 5.0u1 build date:2014-08-08 16:54 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_5.0u1\jre version: 1.7.0_51 > j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily > Description of problem: I got the data loaded after making the changes you > suggested but am now unable to view the data. When I try to view the data > (or set the vertical scale) I get this error message: > > loading data > 0 > > Any suggestions? > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0 > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointObFactory.makeTimeSequenceOfPointObs(PointObFactory.java:390) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointObFactory.makeTimeSequenceOfPointObs(PointObFactory.java:310) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointObFactory.makeTimeSequenceOfPointObs(PointObFactory.java:285) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataInstance.getTimeSequence(PointDataInstance.java:114) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataInstance.getTimeSequence(PointDataInstance.java:137) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.StationModelControl.loadData(StationModelControl.java:1663) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.StationModelControl$4.run(StationModelControl.java:1991) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XXV-830565 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed