Subject: RE: 2.5m obslog 20040916 (MJD 53265)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:58:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: sjnk@apo.nmsu.edu (Scot Kleinman)
>> Weird bug in stripeAxisRates:
>> -----------------------------
>> im> stripeAxisRates 1100 2:30 -startMu 292
>> mu startEnd 292 347.01
>> Error: Unable to convert date-time string "02:29:60 09/17/2004 GMT"
>> im> tb
>> Unable to convert date-time string "02:29:60 09/17/2004 GMT"
>>     while executing
>> "convertclock  "${hours}:${minutes}:${seconds}
>> ${month}/${day}/${year} GMT""
> ...
>
>I've seen something like this before.  The actual time is probably close to
>02:29:59.999 and it got rounded up to the 60th second.  I don't know where
>the original time-stamp comes from, but there's less than one chance in 600
>(or 6000 or 60000) of it being reproducible...
Actually, it was highly reproducible - happening EVERY time we tried
02:30 and 02:31 and 02:29. We eventually got it to work with 02:35.
Your case probably involved a system call to get the time. Here we supplied
the time and it got converted to one of ill-format.
scot