Re: Bug in SCHED (VLBI SCHED)

From: <stingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 02:11:29 +1000 (EST)

Evening (or morning!) Phil,

Well, you learn something new every day. I'm sure there is a good reason
for doing it that way. That clears it up anyway.

Cheers, Steven

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On Sat, 7 May 2005, Phil Edwards wrote:

>
>Hi Steven,
>
>>> Is this a sched bug? Is anyone aware of this? Or am I going mad here?
>
>"No". Yes. No.
>
>It's a "feature"... (which we encountered in VSOP scheduling)
>
>http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~cwalker/sched/sched/node17.html notes that
>
>The date specification for a scan is for the scan stop time, regardless
>of how the scan times are specified. If there is a scan that crosses
>midnight, this can cause some confusion, especially if it is the first
>scan of the experiment and the date is being specified along with START.
>If a schedule crosses a day boundary and START or STOP times are being
>specified, the new day should be specified. However, if midnight is
>crossed during any form of duration scheduling, the day will be
>incremented automatically.
>
>Certainly non-intuitive...
>
>Cheers,
>Phil
>
>
>
Received on 2005-05-07 02:11:57