Hi Mike,
If you go that way, you may have to use -0002-12-30 as reference date
because year 0 is a leap year in matlab whereas I assume that year -1 in
UDUnits isn't.
Furthermore, although it looks like a generic solution it wouldn't allow
you to map matlab years before 0 to netcdf files.
Hence, I would recommend using some reference date closer to today, e.g.
store date-693962 as "days since 1900-01-01".
Best regards,
Bert
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Godin, Michael wrote:
> I'd like to convert some files from Matlab to NetCDF formats with as little modification of the data as possible.
>
> I am running into some ambiguity with dates formatted according to the Matlab convention where 1.0 == Jan 1, 0000. Since Matlab assumes a year "0", and UDUnits does not, should the time units for Matlab dates be "days since -0002-12-31"? While it seems correct, I haven't seen anyone else use such units.
>
> Thanks, Mike
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