[CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:26:07 +0000

Dear Steve

> > If udunits itself were extended to cover non-real-world calendars, wouldn't
> > that be OK?
>
> That idea is easy to say (or request) but it would be very difficult to
> implement because one of the most fundamental assumptions of the UDUNITS
> library -- one around which the library is designed -- is the idea that
> units have constant size; hence, Caron's and my suggestion for use of a
> separate, calendar-handling library.

I see, OK. It would have to replicate some of the functionality of udunits,
though, wouldn't it. What do you use to do the date translation in ncdump -t?

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Wed Mar 16 2011 - 11:26:07 GMT