[daip] [!KCC-499-67179]: aips - possible NX table issue

[Eric Greisen]

Eric Greisen updated #KCC-499-67179
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       Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen (was: -- Unassigned --)
                 Due: - Cleared - (was: 20 August 2013 06:38 PM)

possible NX table issue
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           Ticket ID: KCC-499-67179
                 URL: https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/3721
           Full Name: Lynn D Matthews
               Email: lmatthew at haystack.mit.edu
             Creator: User
          Department: AIPS Data Processing
       Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen
                Type: Issue
              Status: Open
            Priority: Default
      Template Group: Default
             Created: 19 August 2013 06:38 PM
             Updated: 19 August 2013 07:17 PM
      Resolution Due: 21 August 2013 06:38 PM (1d 23h 20m)



This is another one of the issues with times.  They are
kept in single-precision floats and so lack clear boundaries.
I guess the NX handler needs to add an epsilon to the time limits
but if eps is too large then bad things happen also.  It will be
a while until this migrates into things however.

Eric




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