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John & Mathew, As we discussed previously, I believe, you will also need to remove the quotes around the time field You data should look like this 1/31/1977 14:26:15,40.04,70.852,-20,6 The IDV does not like the quotes. Best, Unidata IDV Support > I have tried many different date/time formats at this point. It doesn't > change the error message. > Here is a screen shot after entering the suggested format. > > John > ________________________________________ > From: Unidata IDV Support <address@hidden> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 1:14 PM > To: address@hidden > Subject: [IDV #DKK-526008]: displaying data > > John, > > Thanks for the screenshot. That helps. > > Note you are entering the Time field format as > > MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss > > but is should be > > MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss > > It is yy versus yyyy. Do you see the difference? > > Everything else looks good though you may want to provide information on the > fields that come after altitude in the metadata GUI. > > Once the data are loaded, you can display the "Point Data List" just to check > if > the IDV is reading in your data correctly. > > 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 made the corrections you suggested you to the > > time field but am getting the same error > > > > loading data > > java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException > > > > ****************** > > Stack trace: > > java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException > > > > > > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: DKK-526008 > Department: Support IDV > Priority: Normal > Status: Closed > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DKK-526008 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed