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Request #98: Clarify meaning of NetMag.nsta (D. Given):
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Doc says: "This quantity is the number of observations with non-zero
input weights used to compute the magnitude or mechanism". This implies
number of amps or codas.

The name nsta implies the number of stations.

For Md & codas we've agreed that:
	Col. 101: Total of duration mag weights.
	For the db, need to count the # of weighted values, not just use
	the value in this field.

For Ml we've been writing # of stations NOT readings (amps).

Suggestion: change Jiggle to # readings for consistency.
(column name would be misleading)

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==> Approved.
    Jiggle has already been updated to write the # of readings.
    Checked with Pete, Trimag in the RT writes the # of stations;
    it needs to be updated.
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Request #24:  LDDATE in ALL fields should be updated on INSERT and UPDATE (D. Given):
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Updates from D. Given:
	Set default value of LDDATE = SYS_EXTRACT_UTC(SYSTIMESTAMP).
	Related new request: change documentation to remove
	"or last modified".

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==> Refused.
    LDDATE should be only updated in INSERT.
    LDDATE standard should be UTC time.
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Request #109: Change lddate to include timezone (E. Yu):
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To prevent confusion and proper handling of timestamps, the lddate column
should include timezone information.  The decision to implement this should
be independent of whether this column is populated uniformly.

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==> Discussed.
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