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Re: 980609: Y2K NetCDF and Udunits

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  • Subject: Re: 980609: Y2K NetCDF and Udunits
  • Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 13:55:55 -0600
Chuck,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Chuck Divine <address@hidden>
> Subject: Year 2000, netCDF and udunits
> Organization: .
> Keywords: 199806091904.NAA26474

In the above message, you wrote:

> I am investigating Year 2000 Compliance of software that we have
> installed on the Cray J90s here at the NASA Center for Computational
> Sciences.
> 
> On our machines we have installed the following Unidata products:
> 
> o   netCDF version 2.4.3
> 
> o   netCDF version 3.3.1
> 
> o   udunits version 1.11.5
> 
> Are these products Year 2000 Compliant?

Both netCDF and UDUNITS are Y2K compliant.  There's nothing in the
netCDF library that deals with dates at all and the UDUNITS package was
consciously designed to handle arbitrary times.

Enjoy.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>