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> >To: "Unidata Support" <address@hidden> > >From: "Collin Daly" <address@hidden> > >Subject: Ingest Product Times > >Organization: . > >Keywords: 200003071847.LAA16072 > > Hello, > How would I find the actual time a specific product (header) entered my > local LDM? I would like to verify the header time with the time I actually > receive the product locally. Does notifyme tell me the time stamp from my > machine or is that generated elsewhere? > Thanks, > Collin > > Collin Daly > Meteorological Systems Engineer > Alden Electronics, Inc. > 40 Washington Street > Westborough, Ma 01581 > Voice: 508.366.8851 x.2268 > Fax: 508.898.2427 > e-mail: address@hidden > visit us at: > http://www.alden.com > Hi Collin, try: notifyme -vl - -h <host name> notfyme returns (1) the current system time, (2) the string 'notifyme', (3) the product size, (4) the time the product was injected into the IDD, (5) the feed type, (6) a sequence number, and (7) the product ID with the actual product time. If you take the difference between the first and fourth fields, you can see how long it took the product to arrive at the host. Anne *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 -------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************