From 8fda1e35ed70c39a8b1fca89960e5e325823c80c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Baltzell <baltzell@gmx.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 22:12:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] stop preserving unixTime across events

---
 .../main/java/org/jlab/detector/decode/CodaEventDecoder.java    | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common-tools/clas-detector/src/main/java/org/jlab/detector/decode/CodaEventDecoder.java b/common-tools/clas-detector/src/main/java/org/jlab/detector/decode/CodaEventDecoder.java
index 65516fb3a3..4aa8b35564 100644
--- a/common-tools/clas-detector/src/main/java/org/jlab/detector/decode/CodaEventDecoder.java
+++ b/common-tools/clas-detector/src/main/java/org/jlab/detector/decode/CodaEventDecoder.java
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ private void readHeaderBank(Integer crate, EvioNode node, EvioDataEvent event){
                 int[] intData = ByteDataTransformer.toIntArray(node.getStructureBuffer(true));
                 this.runNumber = intData[3];
                 this.eventNumber = intData[4];
-                if(intData[5]!=0) this.unixTime  = intData[5];
+                this.unixTime  = intData[5];
                 this.helicityLevel3=HelicityBit.DNE.value();
                 if(intData.length>7) {
                     if ( (intData[7] & 0x1) == 0) {