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Re: COARDS time convention

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  • Subject: Re: COARDS time convention
  • Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:57:55 -0700

David,

>Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 08:26:02 -0700
>From: Russ Rew <address@hidden>
>To: David Legler <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: COARDS time convention 

The above message contained the following:

> I've CC:ed Steve Emmerson and John Caron on this reply, in case they
> have anything to add ...

If the temporal variable doesn't reference a timeline, then I wouldn't
use the "... since YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" form, but would, instead, use
just "seconds", "hours", "days", etc.

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