[CF-metadata] New standard names for satellite obs data

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:49:07 -0400

Dear Seth, Aleksandar

> I believe this is correct; a 'time' has to be a numeric value.

In CF, that's right. A quantity with a standard_name of time has to be in time
units according to udunits.

What is the reason for needing to use a string-valued time? Couldn't the
information be represented as a numeric time instead?

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Tue Oct 19 2010 - 12:49:07 BST