rfplot: Add support for start and end dates #84
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Done on PE0SAT's suggestion.
This is more convenient that to have to calculate the start bin and the number of iterations.
The first attempt was to only parse the header of the first bin and calculate the start bin. This worked fine in theory with perfect bins. Not with real bins with slight time drifts and frame drops.
A second attempt was to parse the header of all bins. This worked fine, ended up to be unusable slow on longer acquisitions.
Thus the current and third iterative attempt. It guesses the start bin by reading the header of the first bin, then iteratively reads the guessed bin's header and adjusts by doing a better guess. In practice it rarely needs more than 3 guesses. This makes it accurate and fast.
Instead of adding a test dataset for the unit tests, it generates the testdata on the first test run.