On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Jonathan Gregory
>> 2. Allow a suitable string syntax for date/times, probably expressed
>> as a profile of ISO8601
..snip...
> Obviously opinion is divided on this, if it means allowing time-date coord
> variables which are string-valued, as an alternative to the numerical ones.
> I'm not convinced this is a good idea.
neither am I. However -- we need a datetime string format for the
"units since datetime" approach currently used, so better defining the
datetime string format for CF is a really good idea anyway.
And I agree -- we need to define a standard, not reference or write a library.
I do wish we could simply use a subset of ISO -- but it sounds like
the default for an unspecified timezone is different than the
currently-in-use CF. Darn.
-Chris
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