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Hi Ed,
> HDF5 folk:
>
> How do you really store the time type?
>
> As a floating point number, number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970, or
> something like that?
We do normally store it as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch
(Jan 1, 1970). However, we there's a few different time datatypes defined
and we don't convert between them. Frankly, I think including them is a
mistake currently, since they are bringing "units & quantities" into a part
of the library that doesn't really understand how to do unit conversions, etc.
I would also lean toward not including them in the netCDF4 types, at least
initially.
Quincey
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