Re: Date issues

[Michael Sallman <msallman@pro-ns.net>]

Tom,

droege@snapmail.us wrote:
> First, thanks to Michael for working on this data.
> 
> Hmmm!  I convert 2452252 to 2001 Dec 8.  This is well before I intended
> any data to be in even the engineering data base.  This is back when I was
> only running TOM1 so this should be TOM1 data.

You are right. This data is a relic from when I was providing a way for people 
to download chunks of data versus you having to send out CD's to everyone wanted 
the data.

> The first data in the tr data base is tr01 and it seems to be from 2002
> November 26.
> 
> I don't really object to earlier data being in the data base, but there
> were a number of things wrong with the early data.                        
>                               This included a period of time when the data
> was off a big space like 17 days.  I had intended to delete this data from
> the data base.
> 
> I am delighted that Michael wants to work on this old data to make it
> good.  Just beware.
> 
> There are some out there in data land that would jump on any error to
> discredit the whole tass effort. My general policy is to attempt to make
> full disclosure of everything that might be wrong.
> 
> This early data is certainly unrelaible.  Still, frame to fram variation
> in a single night's run is probably as good as the current data.  It is
> just a question of where zero is for time and magntude.
> 
> Tom Droege

I would prefer to leave it (and adjust the dates), as the observations are 
useful (for me anyway) for studying short-period variables.

Mike