Re: LAS version problem

[Joe McLean <joe.mclean@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ding,
I will record this problem and look into it, in the meantime, try formatting the date as 28-SEP-2003 in your custom code.  Let me
know if it solves the problem.
Joe
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Chi Ding wrote:

> Hi there
>      I have been running a customized LAS 6.1.0.2
> on a RedHat 7.3 box for a long time and it's working fine.
>      Yesterday when I ported my customized code to a solaris machine
> which is running another version of LAS ( probaby 6.2), I met a problem.
> When I submitted a request to LASserver.pl, I got an error
> [Mon Dec 15 13:59:25 2003] Invalid date '28-09-2003'
>      I tried different date format like '09-28-2003' or '28/09/2003', but
> none of them worked.
>      I found the error information was printed by Ferret.pl at subroutine
> sub validateDate {
>     my $datein = shift;
>     my $status = 0;
>     if ($datein){
>       my $date = new TMAP::Date($datein);
>       if ($date->isError && validateNumber($datein)) {
>         die "Invalid date '$datein'\n";
>       }
>     }
>     Anybody could help me about this problem?
>     My XML request was as following
>     <?xml version="1.0"?><lasRequest package="" href="file:las.xml"><link
> match="/lasdata/operations/MooringTest"/><properties><ferret><size>.5</size><format>gif</format></ferret></properties><args><link
> match="/lasdata/datasets/mb1_nc/variables/wind_speed"/>"<link
> match="/lasdata/datasets/mb1_nc/variables/wind_direction"/>"<link
> match="/lasdata/datasets/mb1_nc/variables/sal_depth2"/>"<link
> match="/lasdata/datasets/mb1_nc/variables/temp_depth2"/>"<region><point
> v="-30" type="x"/><point v="40" type="y"/><point v="0" type="z"/><range
> low="28-09-2003" type="t" high="30-09-2003"/></region></args></lasRequest>
>
>     Thanks a lot, Ding