On 3/18/11 10:23 AM, Jon Blower wrote:
Just so you know, the UDUNITS package does assume the first day of the
year at 00:00:00 UTC if additional resolution time-fields are omitted.
This conforms to the ISO standard.
Actually (according to Wikipedia at least) the ISO8601 standard assumes local
time if the time zone is omitted.
right, separate point, but yes. I think timezone should ALWAYS be there
-- I should have put that in my example.
But it's important to highlight that UDUNITS does assume midnight UTC if no time
is provided. It implies that the temporal > resolution is not to be inferred
from the length of the UDUNITS time string.
well, I think that's because for math you need to assume SOMETHING. Is
this any different than assuming that:
2 = 2.0 = 2.000 = 2.0000000
In any other unit?
but I think we'd all infer something about resolution/precision from
those different representations.
-Chris
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