id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
283	Check consistency between start_time and year,month,day etc in ropp2bufr	Ian Culverwell	Dave Offiler Ian Culverwell	"Axel von Engeln (EUM), while working on netcdf-4-to-bufr converters (see ticket #280), found inconsistent results when converting to bufr format because start_date didn't tally with the other time info in the file. 

He suggests we get ropp2bufr to check these are consistent in the ropp file before converting, and issue a (warning?, failure?) if not. "	defect	closed	normal	8.0	ropp_io	6.0	fixed