[CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

From: John Caron <caron>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:38:40 -0600

On 3/18/2011 10:21 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
> John -- I'm wondering if you have any idea about what the API of a
> reference lib should look like? If a time axis is defines as:
> "calendar months since January, 2008", what sort of functions do you
> image would exist to deal with that?

i am working on this for Java - I will post when i have something.

>
> Also, I don't think I've seen any suggestions for how to express
> things like monthly averages -- i.e data that corresponds to a
> particular month, but not of any particular year.
>
hmm, im not sure. maybe this is where your "categories" come in, when
the coordinate isnt actually a datetime coordinate. not necessaarily the
same case when you have an average over a datetime interval.
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