On Apr 21, 2006, at 3:59 PM, John Caron wrote:
Hi Dan:
There's enough differences with the old AS to mess with your mind,
see below.
<variableAgg name="T" />
<netcdf location="1999/1/f99001082417.hdf" coord="/
1999/01/01:08:24:17 GMT" />
These need to have the full URL in the nested netcdf, we dont factor
out the service anymore:
<netcdf location="http://dods.gso.uri.edu/dods-3.4/nph-dods/
1999/1/f99001082417.hdf" coord="/1999/01/01:08:24:17 GMT" />
The time coordinates should be in ISO format:
1999-01-01T08:24:17Z
And change the time coordinate variable:
<dimension name="time" length="0"/>
<variable name="time" type="String" shape="time" >
<attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Time" />
</variable>
or
<dimension name="time" length="0"/>
<dimension name="dateLen" length="20"/>
<variable name="time" type="char" shape="time dateLen" >
<attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Time" />
</variable>
If you need to stick to the udunits "seconds since 1970-1-1 0:00",
yuo'll have to generate the correct value yourself. If thats
impossible, we'll have to see about adding dateFormat back in.
John,
Thanks for the information. What will the 'time' access look
like by default? Will it be a 'string' type? If I have to I can
probably generate the udunits 'secs since' value in the script that
generates the catalog itself.