Re: Still more metar2nc problems

• To: "Bryan G. White" <bgwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Still more metar2nc problems
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:48:55 -0700 (MST)

Bryan,

I made some fixes to the perl decoders that should solve all the problems.
Would you want to test it on your machine?  The modified decoders are in

ascii2nc  buoy2nc   metar2nc  sao2nc    syn2nc    ua2nc ldmConnect

The reason you might have been missing some of the reports is that they
were put into the wrong file.

Let me know how this works out.

Robb...



On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Bryan G. White wrote:

Rob,

I've got a Y2k problem and a I don't know what problem with metar2nc

1)  Around 0z every day I get files created with "000" as the year....
    ie. 000013123_metar.nc.  Must be the dreaded perl "2000 = 000" bug I've

been squashing in some of my programs. It only does this after 0z with data that has a time stamp before ~2345z.

    I think the problem is around line #1558 with formating of the year

variable.

2)  I can't get the ~23:45-23:59 hour obs to decode.  It's vanishing in thin
    air.  I don't know what is going on.  I manually decode a file that
    has a 23:50 ob, but it isn't in the *metar_nc file.  The file has obs from
    before 0z and after 0z.  It does decode the after 0z obs.

    It does however show up int the rawmetars.*.nc file.


Bryan

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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