How to set start/end time for run

[kkappler]

When working with synthetic data, the default start time of a run is 1980-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

But if you want to tell mth5 that the run should start at a different time, how is that done?

Tried manually changing runts.run_metadata.time_period.start but no joy.

Example can be found in aurora/test_utils/synthetic/make_mth5_from_asc.py
create_test3_h5

I created a fix_issue_188 branch with a few things I was trying.

[kujaku11]

@kkappler I pushed a slight adjustment to making synthetic MTH5 files. There are a few things to keep in mind:

• The runts metadata will overwrite any previous Run.metadata so setting the run start time is mute.
• The run_group.metadata start and end time are dictated by the channel's start and end time, so if you want new start and end times you should do that at the channel level. I added that into 'create_run_ts_from_synthetic_run' so just change the start time in the aurora\test_utils\synthetic\synthetic_station_config.py
• When overwriting metadata in an H5 group be sure to run the method write_metadata after the change so that it will be written to the MTH5.

Hopefully that helps

[kkappler]

This has been addressed on branch fix_issue_188_2

Deleting the old fix_issue_188 branch