Ben Hetland wrote:
> One may argue, though, that an option to output time values formatted as
> ISO8601 would be very useful in tools like 'ncdump'. In that case it
> should be optional as I believe the basic idea is to "dump" the internal
> values as directly as possible from how they are actually stored
> internally. (And of course, if 'ncdump' does it, then 'ncgen' must be
> equally able to parse them, so that the two tools are fully
> "symmetrical" to each other.)

The "-t" option to ncdump provides this functionality in recent versions
of netCDF.  It also respects the "calendar" variable attribute in
translating the numerical value to a string.

The ncgen utility doesn't provide the inverse yet ...

--Russ
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