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On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: address@hidden > >From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden> > >Subject: pqsurf SYN date code problem > >Organization: . > >Keywords: 199912021543.IAA11252 > > Hi... > > It's been brought to my attention that when we file synoptic reports > passing through pqsurf for use by "weather", that the observations seem to > pile up in an hour file that matches the day rather than the hour, > although a small number of international synops make it through correctly. > I did a listing of the pqsurf entries and the time stamps appear to be > "ddddmm" instead of "ddhhmm". Is this some bug in pqsurf, or might I have > some other configuration problem? Art, I don't know for sure what the product ID's look like in pqsurf. Could you enter a command in pqsurf.conf like WMO ^(...... .... ......) EXEC /bin/touch data/IDs/\1 This will show the product ID's, then it will be able to check if your pqsurf.conf entries are correct or there is a problem with pqsurf. I suspect that your pqsurf.conf entries need to be changed. Robb... > Thanks. > > Art. > Arthur A. Person > Research Assistant, System Administrator > Penn State Department of Meteorology > email: address@hidden, phone: 814-863-1563 > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================