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 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
