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. > > — > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/298#issuecomment-717512280>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAEVZ7P4VERDGTWK4QUSNDLSM4S5LANCNFSM4ROMDBIQ> > . > -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/298#issuecomment-724883657 This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
