Problems Using ut_calendar

I am looking at GCM data that has the time units in "days since
0000-01-01 00:00:00". The attribute time:calendar = "no leap" so I
have been explicitly changing that attribute in the script to
"standard" because the ut_calendar() doesn't support the "no leap"
calendar type. I am sure the first day of the file is 01-01-1981 (by
using the ncdump command and actually calculating it). When I use the
ut_calendar function, the first output value says 09-06-1980. Since I
know that the output isn't correct, do you have any suggestions of why
this is happening? The second alternative is that I should be using a
different function in NCL. There is another function called
ut_convert ... should I be using this one perhaps? If neither is a
good choice, is there something else I should be looking for on the
website?

   Thank you,
       Katie Holman
       UW-Madison Grad Student
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Received on Mon Oct 20 2008 - 13:51:28 MDT