[daip] probable bug in 31DEC09 and 31DEC10

[Eric Greisen]

Cristina Romero Cañizales wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
>> I note that the piece of code that produces this message 
>> occurs in 31DEC08 FITLD so I am surprised that one does not see it in 
>> that version.  The format is obviously bad but it suggests that one of 
>> the tables in the file has a reference date (required with each table) 
>> more then 999 days earlier than the main reference date.
>>
>> Is this a VLBA data set which I could fetch from the archive to test?
> 
> thanks for replying so soon. The data is from the EVN. I've found the
> same problem with several experiments I'm working on. I'm not aware if
> this problem occurs also with VLBA data.
> 
> If you want to do some tests, you can download one of the experiments
> doing:
> 
> wget -t45 -l1 -r -nd http://archive.jive.nl/exp/EP061A_080229/fits -A
> "ep061a*"

Thank you for making your data available.  The recent FITLD took RDATE 
to be a required keyword which for some reason it is not.  I have 
corrected the test to ignore blank REFDAT.  Loading your data with and 
without this correction makes no difference so the bug was benign.

ERic Greisen