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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:
A suite clock can be modified by a gain. This is useful for suites running on older
data (e.g. cleaning up old data).
The value of the date is in the generated variable ECF_DATE, and the value of the time is in ECF_TIME.
ECF_CLOCK contains other information such as the day of week.
It is safer for a job to always use the suite generated time and date variable‘s,
and not access directly the system date to prevent confusion.

What to do:

  1. Try to modify the suite to run with a clock date from the previous week use :ecflow_client –alter
  2. Check the values of the ecFlow variable‘s

Note

  • The attributes date, day and clock are currently not usable if you choose to use a repeat date type structure.
  • Be aware that cron with a single time dependency will automatically resubmit indefinitely
  • Altering the clock, requires that the suite is re-queued
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