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Karen, > Okay, I'll try to get them to fix the system clock on the machine that > is ingesting the data. Please tell me if you know or discover to whom such an issue should be reported. The latest LDM emits a warning when it receives a product from sufficiently far in the future (but not the past). Some of our users then ask us to fix the problem, but I don't know to whom it should be reported. > Thanks very much for all your help. I feel bad bugging you about what > turns out to be a simple clock problem, but I was truly stumped by some > of the behaviour I was seeing. Hey, the behavior had us scratching our heads as well. In such a situation, there's really no substitute for logging onto the system. > I was also thrown by watching the > filename date/time and not the other time. I've always used system time > to name files, but I think they are getting the time from the data > stream, which would explain the difference. It's also possible that something else is going on (though that would fail Occam's razor). It's always a good idea to monitor the behavior of one's system and investigate puzzling behavior. > Again, thanks for your time and effort. As always you have been very > very helpful. Thanks. You're most welcome. Good luck. > There are 2 kinds of people in the world: > > 1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. > > ------------------------------------------- > address@hidden > > Phone: 405-325-6982 > Cell: 405-834-8559 > SAIC/Systems Analyst > National Severe Storms Laboratory Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: UAK-912261 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed