[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: FW: handling the leap year attribute]]

Hi Noman, heres the answer from our udunits expert:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: FW: handling the leap year attribute]
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:16:05 -0700
From: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
Organization: UCAR/Unidata
To: John Caron <address@hidden>

John,

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:59:06 -0700
> From: John Caron <address@hidden>
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Fwd: FW: handling the leap year attribute]

The above message contained the following:

> In the nc file, the attribute is seen as
>
> time = 31025 ;
> time:units = "days since 0400-01-01 00:00:00" ;
> time:calendar = "noleap" ;
>
> So, how does the udunits library use this attribute?

The UDUNITS library can't handle the "noleap" netCDF attribute.  There's
no mechanism in the API to tell the library that a non-standard calendar
is being used.

If that attribute is being handled by some program, then that program
must take matters into its own hands and not rely, exclusively, on the
UDUNITS library.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson