private PlugInChannelMap handleRegistration(PlugInChannelMap picm) throws Exception {
      // 	picm.PutTime( (System.currentTimeMillis()/1000.0), 0.0);

      try {
        if (((picm.GetName(0).equals("...")) || (picm.GetName(0).equals("*")))) {

          double otime = ctreader.oldTime(sourceFolder);
          double ntime = ctreader.newTime(sourceFolder);
          if (debug)
            System.err.println(
                "handleRegistration picm[0]: "
                    + picm.GetName(0)
                    + ", oldtime: "
                    + otime
                    + ", newtime: "
                    + ntime);

          picm.PutTime(otime, ntime - otime);
          if (regPicm
              != null) { // round about way to cache registration. actual RBNB pre-register does not
            // provide time limits
            if (debug) System.err.println("returning pre-fetched registration...");
            picm.Clear();
            for (int i = 0; i < regPicm.NumberOfChannels(); i++) {
              picm.Add(regPicm.GetName(i));
              picm.PutDataAsString(i, regString(regPicm.GetName(i)));
              picm.PutMime(i, "text/xml");
            }
            return picm; // return pre-fetched registration
          }

          ArrayList<String> chanlist = ctreader.listChans(sourceFolder);
          if (chanlist == null) {
            throw (new Exception("Oops, no channels for sourceFolder: " + sourceFolder));
          }
          picm.Clear();
          for (int i = 0; i < chanlist.size(); i++) {
            int j = picm.Add(chanlist.get(i));
            if (debug) System.err.println("register[" + j + "]: " + picm.GetName(j));
            picm.PutDataAsString(i, regString(chanlist.get(i)));
            picm.PutMime(i, "text/xml");
          }
        } else {
          CTmap ctmap = PI2CTmap(picm); // ignore time limits registration request
          double otime = ctreader.oldTime(sourceFolder, ctmap);
          double ntime = ctreader.newTime(sourceFolder, ctmap);
          picm.PutTime(otime, ntime - otime);
          if (debug)
            System.err.println(
                "handleRegistration picm[0]: "
                    + picm.GetName(0)
                    + ", oldtime: "
                    + otime
                    + ", newtime: "
                    + ntime);

          int nchan = picm.NumberOfChannels();
          if (debug)
            System.err.println("reg-request channel: " + picm.GetName(0) + ", num: " + nchan);
          for (int i = 0; i < nchan; i++) { // put start/end time for each channel individually?
            picm.PutDataAsString(i, regString(picm.GetName(i)));
            picm.PutMime(i, "text/xml");
          }
        }
      } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println("handleRegistration exception: " + e);
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
      //	 plugin.Flush(picm);
      return (picm);
    }