Dear Steve > > If udunits itself were extended to cover non-real-world calendars, wouldn't > > that be OK? > > That idea is easy to say (or request) but it would be very difficult to > implement because one of the most fundamental assumptions of the UDUNITS > library -- one around which the library is designed -- is the idea that > units have constant size; hence, Caron's and my suggestion for use of a > separate, calendar-handling library.
I see, OK. It would have to replicate some of the functionality of udunits, though, wouldn't it. What do you use to do the date translation in ncdump -t? Cheers Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
