On 03/20/2013 04:51 PM, John Caron wrote: > I guess the point is that its not always fair to assume that, and the > user wont know when it fails, esp for > > '2434567 days since -4713-01-01T00:00:00Z' > > unless she also computes > > '1952-08-15T00:00:00Z' > > which presumably she could do as a double check. > > > Which library would you use? Does it work for non-standard calendars? As I see it this should be something that can be done with ncdump (-t), which should be a fairly standard tool available to data writers. If ncdump misses a feature to support the proper calendar for conversion, then it should be fixed there, maybe. Of course it is never a mistake if other libraries/programs support this conversion well. But anyway, it would be a conversion to be handled by a library and won't have to be encoded into the "raw" file. I think this is David's point as well.
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