Hello,
I just thought to report this. Whenever the data_step is missing from the forcing files, the number of time-steps is reported as follows, as an example:
startTime: iyyy, im, id, ih, imin = 1980 1 1 13 0
finshTime: iyyy, im, id, ih, imin = 1980 1 5 10 0
number of time steps = **********
I'm not sure if this is a big deal for the model or not, but if it is, probably worth putting an error describing the issue.