[CF-metadata] Two-variable integer Time in CF?

From: V. Balaji <V.Balaji>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:16:31 -0400 (EDT)

Rich Signell writes:

> [...]
> For our time series data, for example, I should still be be able to
> use 32-bit integers, with time units of "days" (defined in UDUNITS as
> 8.64e4 second), and time2 units of "milliseconds", which would be
> tick_length=86400000 in your method. And if I had 1/3 second time
> steps, I could use seconds with tick_length=3, or hours with
> tick_length=10800.
>
> Should we make a proposal on the CF standards Wiki?

Sure, this sounds good to me.

BTW I didn't know UDUNITS had defined 'days'... that needs to come out!
This isn't just a nitpick... we already run our models on Mars.

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