[CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

From: Steve Emmerson <steve>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:03:26 -0600

Chris,

On 03/15/2011 03:59 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> So what are reasonable units to express timedeltas in?
>
> I think the point here is that "months" or "years" is simply not
> appropriate for that, period.
>
> It can be usefull to express monthly averages, and the like -- it does
> help with our ordinary way of expressing and thinking about time,
> season, etc, but in that case I wouldn't have data stored as:
>
> months since Jan, 1960.
>
> I'd rather have it labeled:
>
> January
> February
> March
> etc....
>
> as it's really a category, rather than a value.

The problem is that there's already a lot of data stored on monthly and
yearly time centers -- and more being created every day. The question is
how to handle it.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson
Received on Tue Mar 15 2011 - 17:03:26 GMT