Hi Roy:
The time coordinate is derived from whats encoded in the GRIB record. It doesnt
matter what the filename is.
John
On 6/17/2013 3:13 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> In my tests on my test server, it appears that you handle in some fashion
> stacked GRIB files, which usually arise if you have say a month's worth of
> 6-hourly GRIB files and you say use the unix "cat" command to combine them
> into one monthly file, which is still valid GRIB file. My question is how
> you handle time in those cases, since if I go by the file name it is only say
> g201301 - so you only have the year and month. Do you just assume that the
> first file is at 0 offset and work you way along, or do you get the time
> from the stacked files? The former will have problems if as is sometimes the
> case, there are missed 6-hourly periods in the stack.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Roy M.
>
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