On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk
> wrote:
> Dear Chris et al.
>
> I may have missed it - are you proposing a change or a clarification to the
> text of the CF standard document?
>
yes and no:
Yes, in that I'm proposing that somthing be chaged in the docuemnt --
really about recommendations and example,s rather than chanign anything
about what it allowed.
No, in that I (or anyone else) has not proposed any particular text.
But if there seems to be a consensus that it would be good ti updated the
docs to make these recommendaiont,s than hopefully someone will suggest
actual text. (I'm short of roundtoits at the moment).
I think these are the ideas:
1) recommend ISO-8601 compliant time strings
2) recommend that an offset (or 'Z') always be provided in a time string.
3) Have all examples conform to the above.
Does anyone this these are NOT good ideas?
NOTE: as I understand it, ISO-8601 time strings are acceptable to UDUnits,
and thus this would not be a change to the standard in any way -- simply
recommendations of good practice.
TBD: According to wikipedia, ISO requires a "T" in between teh date and
time, but then says " It is permitted to omit the 'T' character by mutual
agreement" so do we want to recommend one or the other? I think UDUnits
does not use a T but maybe it will accept it. (the Python netcdf4 lib added
support for the optional "T" a couple years ago -- no idea about any other
parsing libs.
-CHB
> Best wishes and thanks
>
> Jonathan
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> -----
>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:52:48 -0700
> > From: Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
> > To: Nan Galbraith <ngalbraith at whoi.edu>
> > CC: "cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu" <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Temporal nitpicks. Was: CF-metadata Digest,
> Vol
> > 161, Issue 3
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Nan Galbraith <ngalbraith at whoi.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Can we recommend the use of ISO-compatible date strings, with
> > > the caveat that time zone should always be included?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, we really should do that (though it's an offset that is specified,
> not
> > a time zone)
> >
> > It's unfortunate that ISO defaults to local time, and that seems to be
> > > non-negotiable.
> > >
> >
> > yup :-(
> >
> > This is what we use in the OceanSITES implementation of CF. Obviously,
> > > it won't solve everyone's needs,
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to see whos needs it wouldn't suit folks may well want local
> > time, rather than UTC, but having it be unspecified does no one any good.
> >
> > and specifying times in "true" local time, with DST baked in is simply a
> > nightmare for everyone --- it really, really should be discouraged!
> >
> > -CHB
> >
> >
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