The UDUNITS-2 library could be modified to interpret the timestamp in a
time "unit" using the proleptic Gregorian calendar rather than the
currently-used hybrid Julian/Gregorian calendar.

The question is whether or not this would be a good idea.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson
UDUNITS Developer


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:15 PM Dave Allured <[email protected]>
wrote:

> @marqh <https://github.com/marqh>, I am proposing only one idea from
> ISO8601, the mapping of zero and negative year numbers as you just showed.
> Year 0 = 1 BC, etc. I am not proposing a full adoption of an ISO8601
> format. ISO8601 uses fixed length numbers, whereas the CF date/time stamp
> allows variable length numbers with delimiters. Also, CF does not use the 
> *plus
> sign*.
>
> The delimited system is robust and has served us well for a long time. The
> CF delimited system accommodates ISO8601 fixed width formats when the
> standard delimiters including the *"T"* separator are used. E.g.,
> *YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS* is correct under both systems.
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