[LDM #BFP-983048]: pqact not rolling over the the next year as expected.

Peter,

The time of a data-product that is computed using a day-of-the-month field is 
constrained by the heuristic to be less than the creation-time of the product 
plus 1.5 days. The 1.5 day threshold was based on our experience with 
mislabeled WMO products. The labeling of your products appears to be 
intentional rather than accidental, so it's not surprising that the heuristic 
fails.

I could add an option to pqact(1) that would modify the threshold. Is there no 
way, however, to get the data-products correctly labeled? Their identifiers 
aren't WMO headers -- so they're not following a strong standard.

> I couldn't find anything in the support archives on this.  Sorry if it's a
> deja vu question...
> 
> I'm storing model data ingested with ldm in files that include the valid
> date.  The product header includes the valid month and day, but not the
> year.  I presumed that by using the (\n:yyyy) where the \n refers to the
> parenthesized valid day, that yyyy would be set to the next year if the day
> number was a low value and the current month is December.
> 
> For example, if on Dec 28th 2014,   I get a model file that is valid on Jan
> 2nd, then pqact would set the (\1:yyyy) field to 2015 if \n referred to the
> field containing the value "02".   But in my setup, I'm getting 2014 instead
> ?.
> 
> ?
> Here's a
> ?n (pared down) ?
> sample from my pqact capturing some ECMWF from a internal
> ?server?
> .
> ?  (I know my paste converted TABs to whitespace in this example below).?
> 
> WSI
> ?    ^ecmwf.(S1D|HFE)([0-1][0-3])([0-3]?[0-9])([0-2][0-9])00.*    FILE
> -close  /ecmwf/(\3:yyyy)\2\3\4.\1.grib
> 
> where a typical incoming header on Dec 28th might be ecmwf.S1D01021200.grib
> indicating the valid date of this grib is Jan 2nd 12 UTC.   In this case,
> the grib data gets stored in a file called /ecmwf/2014010212.S1D.grib,
> whereas I would have expected it to be /ecmwf/2015010212.S1D.grib.   (To
> make it easier to follow, I stripped out the part of the product
> header/name that includes the initialization date/time in this example)
> 
> ?On what day of the month will pqact set the yyyy field to the next year?
> Is that configurable?
> 
> Thanks for any insight.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Neilley
> ?
> 
> 
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BFP-983048
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed