Hello,
My beer/coffee/perocet levels are too low to want to comment broadly on
this, so I'll just make one comment ...
> Really the main advantage is that data writers are less likely to
> make a mistake specifying
>
> 1952-08-15T00:00:00Z
>
> than
>
> 2434567 days since -4713-01-01T00:00:00Z.
I'm not sure why the later would be any more prone to mistakes than
the former. Surely the conversion of
<time-as-stored-in-whatever-arcane-format-files-my-model-spits-out>
to
'2434567 days since -4713-01-01T00:00:00Z'
would be handled by a software library, just as would the conversion
of
<time-as-stored-in-whatever-arcane-format-files-my-model-spits-out>
to
'1952-08-15T00:00:00Z'
and its fair to assume, I think, that such libraries will do the right
thing.
All the best,
David
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David Hassell
National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading,
Earley Gate, PO Box 243,
Reading RG6 6BB, U.K.
Tel : 0118 3785613
Fax : 0118 3788316
E-mail: d.c.hassell at reading.ac.uk
Received on Wed Mar 20 2013 - 09:41:19 GMT
