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

From: Mike Grant <mggr>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:55:38 +0100

On 19/10/10 14:21, Aleksandar Jelenak wrote:
> Actually, I don't think it is possible to use 'time' standard name in
> such cases. If I correctly interpret CF rules for using standard names,
> 'time' data can be only in the physically-equivalent units to "seconds".
> Strings, being dimensionless, do not qualify.

Out of curiosity, why do you want to store time as strings? It's easy
to create those strings from numerical values, and numerical values are
easier to handle in code (and in netcdf-3, as Seth said).

Cheers,

Mike.

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