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[netCDF #OYW-455599]: Broken 366_day calendar in ncdump

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  • Subject: [netCDF #OYW-455599]: Broken 366_day calendar in ncdump
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:34:32 -0600
Dave- I am finally in a position to return to this issue about
366 day calendars. I need some help before I can solve.
=Dennis Heimbigner

Specifically, I need to know the following:

I created a minimal example of the 366 day calandar example
to simplify debugging.
Here is the CDL (without the data: section). It is the same
as your original example except the time dimension is smaller.
--------------------------------------------------
netcdf test {
dimensions:
        time = 7 ;
variables: 
        int time(time) ;
                time:units = "days since 1900-1-1" ;
                time:calendar = "366_day" ;
}
--------------------------------------------------
The data part (without using ncdump -t flag)
is this set of 7 values: data: time = 360,361,362,363,364,365,366;
This is a subset of the original failing data you sent.
The output using ncdump -t is this:
data: time = "1900-12-31", "íaÈÄ(", "íaÈÄ(", "íaÈÄ(", "íaÈÄ(", "íaÈÄ(", 
"1901-01-01" ;

So my questions are:
1. is the first value "1900-12-31" correct as the time equivalent of 360?
2. what should those middle 5 failing time outputs look like?
   e.g "1900-12-32"... or what

 

=Dennis Heimbigner
  Unidata


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OYW-455599
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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