Re: Strange problem with time axis across centuries

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michel,

Thanks for the report. It is, indeed, a bug that you found. It is already
fixed, but not in version 5.0.

If you are finding it a crippling problem please write back to me off-line.
Perhaps we can get you a temporary version of Ferret to work with that has
the problem fixed.

    - steve

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"Michel Beland (professionnel de recherche)" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have the following ferret script:
>
> define axis /t=1-DEC-1999:1-MAR-2000/npoints=11 bt
> define grid /t=bt bg
> file /var=temp/grid=bg temp.dat
> plot temp
>
> where temp.dat is just a column of 11 values going from 0.0 to 10.0.
> When I run it with ferret 4.91 (on a SGI R4000 Indigo running IRIX 6.2),
> the time axis does not show up on the plot.  If I change the time axis
> to go from 1-JAN-2000 to 1-APR-2000, the problem disappears.  So I
> thought that this was a Y2K bug, but if I change the time axis to go
> from 1-DEC-1999 to 1-APR-2000, everything is correct.  What is the
> problem ?  It shows up also if I go from 1-DEC-1899 to 1-MAR-1900.
>
> This is the version compiled for IRIX 5.x.  Unfortunately, ferret 5.0
> compiled for IRIX 6.x uses the MIPS4 instruction sets, which is not
> accepted by the machine I use.
>
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> Michel Beland                 beland@CERCA.UMontreal.CA
> professionnel de recherche    tel: (514)369-5223  fax: (514)369-3880
> CERCA (Centre de recherche en calcul applique)
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