date_created field in header is ambiguous #129
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As discussed in open-ephys#129, the date_created field of .continuous file headers does not have fixed width days of the month, hours, or seconds, which makes parsing the header difficult and often ambiguous. I have changed the RecordNode class to produce fixed width datestrings, which should fix this problem. I was unable to compile with these changes, but the previous commit (226bfab) won't compile for me either. However, I can make these changes to an earlier commit and compile successfully.
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Hi,
The date_created field in the .continuous file header has a format which is both hard to parse and is ambiguous. The date format seems to be "d-u-yyyy hmms" where d is the day of the month, u is the three letter abbreviation for the month, yyyy is the year, h is one or two digit hour, mm is the two digit minute, and s is the one or two digit second. Times can therefore be four to six digits long, and many five digit times can have two interpretations. For example the time "11111" could be parsed as either 11:11:01 or 01:11:11.
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