UDUNITS 1.10 released

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: UDUNITS 1.10 released
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 10:20:07 -0600

Greetings,

    Version 1.10 of the Unidata units package, UDUNITS, is now available.
This package provides a stand-alone, data abstraction library for the
manipulation of units of measurement by application programs.  In
particular, the udunits(3) library is a de facto standard for the
handling of `units' attributes in netCDF datasets.

    New in this release of UDUNITS is an extension of the algorithms
for handling time.  Prior to this release, any timestamp in a units
specification had to be a valid Gregorian date (i.e. on or after October
15, 1582 -- when the Gregorian calendar was adopted).  This release
extends the concept of the Gregorian calendar back to January 1, 4713
BCE (alias Julian day number 0).

The UDUNITS package can be obtained via the following URL's:

    Source:

        ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/udunits/udunits.tar.Z

        (Please see the file README for installation instructions.)

    Binary:

        ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/

        (See the file README for instructions on obtaining a binary
        distribution for your system.  NOTE: The the perl extension does
        not come with the binary distribution.)

    There is a Web page for the UDUNITS package that contains
additional information (e.g. release notes, manual pages, installation
instructions, known problems, support email archive).  Its URL is

        http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/udunits/

Regards,
Steve Emmerson
support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx