This defines a date dependency for a node. There can be multiple date dependencies. The European format is used for dates, which is: dd.mm.yy as in 31.12.2012. Any of the three number fields can be expressed with a wildcard `` to * to mean any valid value. Thus, 01.*.* means the first day of every month of every year.
Currently, you cannot specify a range of values for any of the three number fields in a date, See "day" for a way to specify the first seven days.
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task x # Run the task twice |
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a month date 1.*.* # month, on 1st and 15th |
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date 15.*.* |
Because ecFlow was designed with ECMWF suites in mind, the date is a very important notion. ecFlow defines the time using clocks. A clock is an attribute of a suite. Different suites can have different clocks. There are two kinds of clocks:
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