[CF-metadata] New standard name: datetime_iso8601

From: Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:51:31 -0800

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Russ Rew <russ at unidata.ucar.edu> wrote:

> Yes, since version 4.2, ncdump has supported the "-t" and "-T" options
> for showing dates and times in human-readable and ISO-compliant format,

Wow! I'd never noticed that -- very handy, thanks!

I actually used ncdump as a simple example, but this strengthens my
point -- tools already understand the "time_unit since datetime"
format -- we don't need another.

-Chris

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