[evlatests] EOP

[Claire Chandler]

Hi Barry,

Does the USNO notify its EOP user community when they make these format 
changes?

Claire

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Barry G. Clark wrote:

> Just for the record.  About September 1, USNO slightly
> changed the format of the Series 7 bulletin, from which
> we get our Earth Orientation Parameters.  My program which
> parses that got things just wrong enough that the EOP
> were not being loaded into the database, but it wasn't
> complaining loudly enough to be noticed.
>
> When EOP are loaded, I load predictions for a month in advance.
> So October 1, 0h UT we ran out of predicts.
>
> I loaded a set of predicts by hand.  Monday I'll change the
> program to handle the changed format, and to let me know if
> it has trouble in that way again.
>
> The differences between the August 31 predicts for October 1
> and the September 28 predicts for October 1 is about 10 mas
> in all three numbers, so not a serious problem for the three
> weeks we ran without new predicts.
>
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