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Mekonnen, >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:56:28 -0600 >From: "Mekonnen Woldemariam" <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Iowa >To: <address@hidden> >Subject: Udunits question The above message contained the following: > About a year ago, you helped me run the program 'readgeneral.F' on a red = > hat linux machine. Your help was very useful for my work. Now I have = > another question, and I need your help. > > My overall objective is to read sea surface temperature data (in netCDF = > file) produced by CDC. I managed to read the data using IDL program. I = > extracted the time information using the program dump.c. However the = > time information that I extracted is coded, and I need the 'udunits' = > library to read the data.=20 > > My problem is regarding udunits. This library is not available for = > windows. So how can I convert the coded time into something = > understandable in Windows? Are there any other programs that can do this = > under windows? I am attaching a file containing the coded time = > information. Have you tried to build the UDUNITS library under Windows? I haven't -- but the code was intended to be fairly portable. Please try and let me know what happens. > Thanks for your help, > > Mekonnen Gebremichael > PhD Student > IIHR-Hydroscience&Engineering > The University of Iowa Regards, Steve Emmerson