[evla-sw-discuss] AM861 Script Problem

[Bryan Butler]

yep - that's why i said "in most cases".  there are cases where the 
synchronization must be much better, and ken points out 2.



On 8/4/06 17:03, Ken Sowinski wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bryan Butler wrote:
>>
>> it needs to be right.  it can't be 3.5 hours off.  if it's within 
>> seconds that's fine for most cases (there will just be some missed 
>> data at the beginning or end of scans).  if it's off by a significant 
>> fraction of the scan duration (typically minutes to 10's of minutes) 
>> or more, that's a problem.
> 
> 
> I would think it must be right to a second if the file does
> pointing scans; a few seconds if fast switching is used.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
>> On 8/4/06 09:51, Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
> 
>>> How accurate does the time need to be for obs2script to do the right 
>>> thing?