Conventions for time in netCDF files?

Jonathan Corbet (corbet@stout.atd.ucar.EDU)
Mon, 29 Oct 90 16:29:33 -0700

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From: corbet@stout.atd.ucar.EDU (Jonathan Corbet)
To: netcdfgroup@unidata.ucar.edu
Subject: Conventions for time in netCDF files?
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 90 16:29:33 -0700

In my continuing attempt to use netCDF in a real time environment, I find
myself wondering how to represent the time of each sample in a netCDF file.
This seems to me like a fairly common problem -- I can't be the first to
have thought about it. Yet I can't find anything in the manual about how
this should be done.

So, I'm curious: what sort of conventions are y'all using to keep track of
times in netCDF files? I would really like to create something which will
work with the rest of the world.

Thanks,

Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division
corbet@stout.atd.ucar.edu

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