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Re: netCDF time representation

To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: netCDF time representation
From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 16:41:43 -0700

>Your idea of expressing time in user-speicifed units from a given origin
>sounds useful and analogous to the UDUNITS package.  I agree with the 
>advantages you state.  However, this method still has the problem of
>insufficient precision for long spans with small ticks, as has been
>expressed by others recently.

Has anyone encountered a dataset that requires more than 32 bits of 
time?

Steve Emmerson           <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>