Index: trunk/LMDZ.GENERIC/changelog.txt
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--- trunk/LMDZ.GENERIC/changelog.txt	(revision 3936)
+++ trunk/LMDZ.GENERIC/changelog.txt	(revision 3937)
@@ -2113,2 +2113,6 @@
 Update of r3928: small modification to make slow_diagfi fully invisible in 3D
 (where it is always disabled).
+
+== 28/10/2025 == EM
+Fix some initializations issues in start2archive: call conf_gcm() instead of
+defrun_new() to ensure some defaults (like "timestart") are correctly set.
Index: trunk/LMDZ.GENERIC/libf/dynphy_lonlat/phystd/start2archive.F
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--- trunk/LMDZ.GENERIC/libf/dynphy_lonlat/phystd/start2archive.F	(revision 3936)
+++ trunk/LMDZ.GENERIC/libf/dynphy_lonlat/phystd/start2archive.F	(revision 3937)
@@ -151,7 +151,5 @@
       call parse_args()
 
-      CALL defrun_new(99, .TRUE. )
-
-      planet_type="generic"
+      call conf_gcm(99,.true.)
 
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