{
if(NR <= 5){
# strip out the first 5 header lines without touching them - will put them back later
	print > "header";
} else {
# check not the last line of the file
	if(substr($0,1,5) != "[END]"){
# otherwise extract the date+time and convert to a Unix timestamp
		timestr = sprintf("%4d %02d %02d %02d %02d %02d 0",substr($1,7,4),substr($1,1,2),substr($1,4,2),substr($1,12,2),substr($1,15,2),substr($1,18,2));
		timecount = mktime(timestr);
# output the timestamp at start of the line
		printf("%d ",timecount);
# now output all the other fields - have a trap for empty field which will be filled with -999.999
		for (i=2;i<=NF;i++){
			if($i == ""){
				printf(" %9.3f",-999.999);
			}else{
				printf(" %9.3f",$i);
			}
		}
# now give a Unix line ending
		printf("\n");
	}
}
}