On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Jim Biard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that CF conventions sections about the calendar attribute should
> say something along the lines of:
>
> 4.4.1 Calendar
> In order to know what point in history has been measured by a given base
> date, base time, and time increment, one must know what calendar was used
> for the base date and time. The calendar attribute defines the particular
> date and time system that was used to express the reference time string
> found in the units attribute, and is assigned to the time coordinate
> variable. The values currently defined for calendar are:
> ...
>
> looks good to me.

-Chris




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