Elaborated on discrepancy checking during update_flagged_data and made changes that will improve binary similarity.

Author: Eli

dms_datastore/auto_screen.py

@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ def ncro_fetcher(repo, station_id, param, subloc, data_path=None):
         repo=repo,
         data_path=data_path,
         meta=True,
+        force_regular=True
     )
 
 def general_fetcher(repo, station_id, param, subloc, data_path=None):
@@ -511,6 +512,7 @@ def general_fetcher(repo, station_id, param, subloc, data_path=None):
         repo=repo,
         data_path=data_path,
         meta=True,
+        force_regular=True
     )
 
 def custom_fetcher(agency):

dms_datastore/read_multi.py

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def read_ts_repo(
     start=None,
     end=None,
     meta=False,
-    force_regular=False,
+    force_regular=True,
     modifier=None,
     data_path=None,
 ):