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Alec, >Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:16:24 +0200 (SAT) >From: Alec Joubert <address@hidden> >Organization: University of the Witwatersrand >To: Steve EMMERSON <address@hidden> >Subject: success! >Keywords: 199712121031.DAA14038 In the above message, you wrote: > Thanks for all the trouble over the last few weeks. The code I was > given by the folk at NCEP was missing an integer function called "lnblnk". > Adding it to the code made every bit of difference - code compiles and > runs happily. Great! > > May I put a query about how netcdf and ferret handles dates past you: The handling of dates lies outside the purview of the netCDF package. One package that does handle dates is the UDUNITS package (also from us). > > I have run the NCEP read code to print dates from the first dataset. > Having printed all the time-steps in the file, the output indicates the > following: > year month day hour > time-step 1: 1973 1 1 0 > time-step 1460: 1973 12 31 18 (ncdump says there are 1460 times) > > But throughout ferret, > > cont/t="01-jan-1973:00:00" gives the first date as: 03-jan-1973 00:00 > and > cont/t="31-dec-1973:18:00" gives the last date as: correct > > Why does the first date differ for ferret? I'm afraid I can't answer that question as I know next to nothing about Ferret. I suggest that you contact the Ferret people. > > Thanks > > Alec > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Alec Joubert > Climatology Research Group Tel: +27 11 716 2998 > University of the Witwatersrand Fax +27 11 716 3161 > P.O. Wits 2050 Email: address@hidden > SOUTH AFRICA WWW: http://crg.bpb.wits.ac.za > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>