Inconsistent documentation regarding filenames ending in Z

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Inconsistent documentation regarding filenames ending in Z #111

Closed kwilcox closed 7 years ago

kwilcox commented 8 years ago

Should data files that are uploaded to the DAC FTP site end in Z? There is conflicting documentation in the File Naming Conventions section.

I'm leaning towards yes... please confirm!

lukecampbell commented 8 years ago

It looks like no Z suffix to the folder name. Data files can be pretty much anything, the aggregation looks for netCDF files. I haven't tested what happens if the files are out of order, but I remember hearing that ERDDAP aggregates them just fine, even if the filenames are not in any specific order.

lukecampbell commented 8 years ago

Example upload:

./rutgers/silbo-20160413T1534/silbo_20160916T0422Z_rt.nc
./rutgers/silbo-20160413T1534/silbo_20160915T1620Z_rt.nc
./rutgers/clark-20160624T1800/clark_20160915T0114Z_rt.nc
./rutgers/clark-20160624T1800/clark_20160916T1215Z_rt.nc
./rutgers/clark-20160624T1800/clark_20160915T1700Z_rt.nc
./rutgers/clark-20160624T1800/clark_20160915T2040Z_rt.nc