ndown fails due to time step not on the hour

[mullenkamp]

Hi,

I'm trying to run ndown to run a model down to 1km. The source data is from a nested model run that goes down to 3km. Both namelist.input files are attached with the rsl.error.0000 file from ndown.
ndown fails due to "Found 2020-09-28_01:00:02 before I found 2020-09-28_01:00:00"; which means that the source 3km output file does not have a time step on the hour.
I am using adaptive time stepping, but I'm also using step_to_output_time = .true.

Is there anything else I can do to force the time steps to the hour or have ndown ignore the seconds offset?

Thanks

 

[mullenkamp]

I found one solution.

Set this parameter in time_control:
adjust_output_times = .true.

It forces all time stamps to be rounded to the nearest hour.

This should also be set in domains to ensure that the model output is already close to the hour:
step_to_output_time = .true.

Hopefully I don't need any sub-hourly results .