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20040330: "watch" question.

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  • Subject: 20040330: "watch" question.
  • Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:31:26 -0700
Stonie,

>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:19:27 +0000
>From: Stonie Cooper <address@hidden>
>Organization: Planetary Data, Incorporated
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: "watch" question.

The above message contained the following:

> Quick question on the "ldmadmin watch" difference between 5.2.1 and 6.0.14.  
> If I do a watch on 5.2.1, I see something similar to:
> 
> Mar 30 17:36:42 pqutil:      235 20040330173642.041 IDS|DDPLUS 807  SNVD17 
> KWBC 301700 RRD
> 
> But on the 6.0.14:
> 
> Mar 30 18:16:51 pqutil:     6005 TS_ZERO NNEXRAD 726  SDUS22 KRAH 
> 301755 /pN2SRAX
> 
> What is the significance of the TS_ZERO versus the - what appears - time stamp
> stuff above?

TS_ZERO means the beginning of the epoch (i.e., 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC)
and corresponds to a numeric value of zero.  The data-product whose
metadata was printed in the above had a creation-time of zero.  The
creation-time is set by the LDM ingester that created the data-product.

> I just want to make sure I'm not missing something on my 6.0.14 port.
> -- 
> Stonie R. Cooper
> Planetary Data, Incorporated
> (402) 727-6599

Regards,
Steve Emmerson