Re: "proleptic_gregorian" Support in Date Routines

From: Mary Haley <haley_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu Jan 30 2014 - 10:48:45 MST

Sorry Albert, I missed the fact that you had attached a simple fix! I'll look at this now and see if we can incorporate it into 6.2.0.

--Mary

On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Albert,
>
> Can you tell us what the different units are that you're seeing in this one model, and how you are having to edit the files and resave them?
>
> I'm not exactly sure which "rebasing" feature you are referring to in V6.2.0.
>
> Would the "calendar_decode2" function get you the support you need for proleptic_gregorian?
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/calendar_decode2.shtml
>
>
> --Mary
>
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:38 AM, Albert Yau <albert.yau@stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I found that the date routines in 6.1.2 are not yet fully supporting the "proleptic_gregorian" calendar. For example, days_in_month will return "illegal calendar" for this input. I have this problem while processing some of the CMIP5 model's data. It is a trivial fix in datesW.c which I have attached here, I hope it has already been included in the next release.
>>
>> I have to say thanks for all of you developers, I am really looking forward to the automatic time rebasing feature in 6.2.0, because one particular model has monthly netcdf data with different units for a hundred years. Right now I have to edit and save all the nc files before calling addfiles.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Albert
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