Re: add date to a new nc file

For some general best practices on writing NetCDF files, from Unidata, the developers of NetCDF:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/BestPractices.html

For how to write NetCDF efficiently using NCL:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/method_2.shtml

Note that this contains a "creation_date" attribute which puts a timestamp on the file.

It uses

  fAtt@creation_date = systemfunc("date")

but you can get the format you want with:

  fAtt@creation_date = systemfunc("date +%Y-%m-%d_%T")

--Mary

On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Alexander Semenov wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Could you help me understand how to create a proper netCDF file. I need it to contain monthly average SST and SEA ICE. What I can't figure out is how to specify the date in the file. I need to be: yyyy-mm-dd_hh:00:00.
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