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Re: netCDF time representation

Steve Emmerson (steve@unidata.ucar.edu)
Tue, 11 Feb 92 16:41:43 -0700

>Your idea of expressing time in user-speicifed units from a given origin
>sounds useful and analogous to the UDUNITS package. I agree with the
>advantages you state. However, this method still has the problem of
>insufficient precision for long spans with small ticks, as has been
>expressed by others recently.

Has anyone encountered a dataset that requires more than 32 bits of
time?

Steve Emmerson <steve@unidata.ucar.edu>