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20000710: Strange date jump with certain CIMSS files (using pnga2area)

>From: "C. Vandersip" <address@hidden>
>Organization: FSU
>Keywords: 200007031756.e63HugT00060 ldm-mcidas

Chris,

>I've gotten no response on these questions :( so I'm trying one more time.

Its been pretty busy around here.  Chiz is out of town at the moment,
so you will have to wait some more for responses to your GEMPAK-specific
question.

>> After a few days of ingesting the new CIMSS files with pnga2area, I'm
>> noticing a problem with the 2300UTC file for each day.  It appears that
>> this file is being named with a date one day ahead of the actual date.  
>> The example "ls -l" below shows this (local time=EDT):
>> 
>> (...)
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  4 18:31 PW_000704_2100
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  4 19:31 PW_000704_2200
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  3 20:46 PW_000704_2300 <---
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  4 21:46 PW_000705_0000 
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  4 22:31 PW_000705_0100
>> (...)
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  5 18:31 PW_000705_2100
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  5 19:31 PW_000705_2200
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  4 20:46 PW_000705_2300 <---
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  5 21:46 PW_000706_0000
>> -rw-r--r--   1 13       staff     242800 Jul  5 22:31 PW_000706_0100
>> 
>> Notice that the 2300UTC file created on the 3rd (4th) is given a file name
>> indicating it's from the 4th (5th).  All other files are ok.  This problem
>> occurs for all 6 products.  Any clue?

Please send us the exact pqact.conf entry(ies) that you are using to
generate your CIMSS images.  I will start running them here and see if
I can reproduce your problem.  If I can, I will initiate a bugfix.

>> > 2.  Can I use scour.conf to scour the new CIMSS data directories?
>> > Currently, nsat_links does this for the standard AREA files.

You could use the LDM scour to scour the CIMSS data directories.  Chiz
uses a variant of the script he wrote to prune NIDS directories.  The
only advantage in using his script approach is that it runs more
frequently than once-per-day (like scour typically does), so it keeps
the total number of images closer to the number specified in the script
invocation.  When you use scour, the number of files for any type of
image will grow throughout the day and then get lopped when scour
runs.

Tom Yoksas