Right time select boxes in the UI

[Jens-Uwe Grooß]

Do we really need the two right time select boxes and the corresponding slide buttons? I did not use them very often. In the case of campaigns so far, we had 12-hourly or 24-hourly forecasts. It would only be needed if you have forecasts in high time resolution, but you want to see a time series in lower time resolution. Which never was the case in my experience.

Therefore I would propose to remove these buttons from the operating panel, unless someone disagrees.

[Reimar Bauer]

We have discussed this and I was told there is a reason to keep them.

[Joern Ungermann]

We did discuss this, but we have not documented the arguments. I also cannot recreate the arguments for the current user interface that allows the request on non-existing data. At least with the MSS WMS server that is not sensible and we could remove a bit of clutter from the UI that would make room for an extended layer selection button. But I may be missing some important information, especially with respect to other WMS servers.

[Reimar Bauer]

The reason why we keep the two right time select boxes is because we want to read WMS data from other servers by our GUI. The other servers have sometimes a different implementation of time and don't use DATE_INIT.