Dear John > Im not sure I can actually implement prefixes for calendar fields, > since in general that would violate the need for integers. > millisecond makes sense, but millihour doesnt.
Yes, I see. Could we include ms then, and also a, ka and Ma for a year, 1000 years and a million years, used in paleoclimate? Regarding paleoclimate, a point I forgot is that some modellers may wish to have years which are very large negative numbers (many more than four digits) if they set up the model with the "true" date for the run. Although for geological timescales you might say that this isn't necessary and you might as well choose an arbitrary year, there is a good reason for it in Pleistocene when you might be using the dates to relate to orbital forcing or atmospheric composition. Thanks for your other replies as well. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
