Chris, On 03/15/2011 03:59 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > So what are reasonable units to express timedeltas in? > > I think the point here is that "months" or "years" is simply not > appropriate for that, period. > > It can be usefull to express monthly averages, and the like -- it does > help with our ordinary way of expressing and thinking about time, > season, etc, but in that case I wouldn't have data stored as: > > months since Jan, 1960. > > I'd rather have it labeled: > > January > February > March > etc.... > > as it's really a category, rather than a value.
The problem is that there's already a lot of data stored on monthly and yearly time centers -- and more being created every day. The question is how to handle it. Regards, Steve Emmerson _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
