Error using load in Matlab

[SarahAlidoost]

Related to generating forcing_globals.mat, matlab version 9.10.0.1684407 (R2021a) Update 3

STEMMUS_SCOPE_exe(string(config_path));
    "Reading config from "    "D:\test0825\input\AR-SLu_2022-08-25-1547\AR-SLu_2022-08…"

Error using load
Unable to read MAT-file D:\test0825\input\AR-SLu_2022-08-25-1547\forcing_globals.mat. Not a binary MAT-file. Try load -ASCII
to read as text.

Error in filesread (line 24)
load(forcing_global_path, 'DELT', 'Dur_tot', 'IGBP_veg_long', 'latitude', 'longitude', 'reference_height', 'canopy_height',
'sitename')

Error in run (line 91)
evalin('caller', strcat(script, ';'));

Error in STEMMUS_SCOPE (line 26)
run filesread %get paths and prepare input files

Error in run (line 91)
evalin('caller', strcat(script, ';'));

Error in STEMMUS_SCOPE_exe (line 11)
run STEMMUS_SCOPE

[SarahAlidoost]

The MAT-file D:\test0825\input\AR-SLu_2022-08-25-1547\forcing_globals.mat is generated using calling python from matlab on a windows system where the system language is not English. Looking at the content of this file, the time is not written correctly. Hence, matlab complains about the content of the file.

To generate the MAT-file, we uses hdf5storage.savemat that uses a writes function including datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y').

Perhaps this issue will be fixed if the forcing_globals is saved as a netcdf file, see issue #16

[BSchilperoort]

A workaround could be to set the locale to en_US, using Python's locale module.