Dear Aleksandar > > Is the proposal for the use of date-time strings in auxiliary coordinate > > variables only, not in (Unidata) coordinate variables, > > to provide a human-readable equivalent to the encoded time coordinate > > variable? > > Not exclusively. It could be used for that purpose but I would not > elevate it to the level of an auxiliary coordinate. My intention was > to standardize on a subset of ISO8601 datetime string formats that > can be used for such data and thought a standard name is the most > benevolent method of achieving that.
I agree that you could use a standard_name to indicate that a certain string- valued variable contains a date-time in ISO format. However I am not clear how this string-valued variable would be associated with the data unless it was an auxiliary coordinate variable i.e. one which is named by the coordinates attribute of the data variable. What did you have in mind? Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
