Hello Andrew,
I was glad to see your solution for fixing the date problem since we were
in the same situation (running xwinnmr 1.3) However, I found that whenever
the date contains a number 5 the print-out will be number 4. For example,
today's print-out should have the date 20000125, it actually prints
20000124. I thought you may have a quick fix for this one too.
Thanks!
Wei
>> this may be the first reported Y2K problem on this list. Since January we
>> are not getting the correct date anymore on paper printouts from our
>> spectra. The respective line reads "DATE_ 500000" every day. In contrast,
>> all directory and file dates for new spectra are correct.
>>
>> We are running XWIN-NMR 1.3 (patchlevel 8) on an SGI Indy under IRIX 5.3
>> with all recommended patches + the handful of recommended Y2K patches
>> installed (according to SGI WWW site and their Y2K audit program).
>> Patchlevel 9 for XWIN-NMR 1.3 does not seem to have a fix for our problem
>> according to the Bruker summary of bug fixes.
>>
>> Is this a Y2K problem? Has anybody seen it and can offer a solution short of
>> upgrading to XWIN-NMR 2.6 (we like 1.3!!)? Thanks for your help, a summary
>> will be posted.
>
>This problem occurs because the allowed range for the date output has
>been set to 6 digits (e.g. 991201). After 1999 the internal date
>function in xwinnmr 1.3 will generate dates such as 1000114 which apart
>from being the year '100' is now too long to display!
>
>One solution is to upgrade to XWINNMR 2.x - xwinnmr 1.3 is not supposed
>to be y2k!
>
>Alternatively, to fix the problem you need to edit the format files in
>/u/exp/stan/nmr/form/acqu.l, these are normpl (for plotting), normdp
>(for display), and normlp (for printing). Near the top of each file you
>should see an entry for Date_ something like:
>
>T_NAME Date_
> TYPE R64
> CLASS ACQU
> SUBRANGE 0.0 500000
> REL "Date_=itodate(DATE)"
> INV_REL "DATE=datetoi(Date_,DATE)"
> FORMAT "%14.0f"
> TEXT " "
>END
>
>You need to change the subrange line to be
>
> SUBRANGE 0.0 50000000
>
>i.e. 50 million rather than 500000. After making this change you may
>like to check if your dates now appear as 1000114 - if you see 20000114
>then you have finished!
>
>If you get the year as 100 change the REL line to be
>
> REL "Date_=itodate(DATE)+19000000"
>
>This should then produce the correct output.
>
>Another related problem arises if someone has in the past generated
>their own format file (e.g. to remove unwanted parameters from plot
>output). If the file was generated using a 1.x format file then the
>range will be wrong, even though new software may have been loaded (this
>will only update the Bruker defaults as above!) In this case you should
>ideally regenerate your format file using the new Bruker default as a
>starting point, but just changing the SUBRANGE to 50000000 as above is
>probably the only change that is actually required.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Andrew Gibbs
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