[Difx-users] Synthetic Tests issue

[Adam Deller]

Hi David,

Thanks for reporting this! I made the suggested change, verified that it
ran correctly, and have now committed the patch.

By the way, your post was initially held up for moderation as the email
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Cheers,
Adam

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 08:26, David Munton via Difx-users <
difx-users at listmgr.nrao.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>     A co-worker and I have been learning how to install and use DiFX and
> we ran into an small issue with the Synthetic tests located in the
> /tests/Synthetic directory.  Since I haven't seen this reported I
> thought I would pass
> along the issue and the solution.
>
> Symptoms: When the createData.sh and then run-all.sh scripts are run,
> the output fits files are all about 85kB in size and contain an empty UV
> data array.
> The corresponding files in the *.difx directories are all 0 bytes in
> size. errormon2 only
> shows INFO and VERBOSE messages, and the applications run without error.
> This behavior only appeared recently.
>
> Solution:  There appears to be an incompatibility in the time used in the
> generateVDIF call, which by default is "now", and one of the underlying
> files.
> The solution is to modify the createData.sh script to add the keywork
> argument
> "-year 2020"
> to each generateVDIF call.   Doing so then generates more appropriately
> sized
> fits files.
>
> Regards,
>          David
>
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