I am heavily in favor of the units attribute being the way that ISO time strings are identified.
Jim Biard Research Scholar Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites Remote Sensing and Applications Division National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801-5001 jim.bi...@noaa.gov 828-271-4900 On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Steve Hankin <steven.c.han...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > On 3/26/2013 7:20 PM, Aleksandar Jelenak - NOAA Affiliate wrote: >> Hi Steve, >> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Steve Hankin <steven.c.han...@noaa.gov> >> wrote: >>> Hi Aleksander, >>> >>> A question to debate in your trac ticket. Per the CF documentation, the >>> definition of the standard_name is "The name used to identify the physical >>> quantity" >> I found five standard names for variables with string values. Their >> units are either not specified, or declared as "1" or "string". > > Hi Aleksander, > > I think we're talking about different issues. The thought question I posed > was not whether it is acceptable to have a standard_name assigned to string > variable. Nothing wrong with a string variable. Rather it was to point > out that ISO date-time strings are a way of encoding the physical quantity > that we know as TIME. So TIME is the "right" standard_name for ISO > date-time strings per the definition quoted above. > > Now, it may be that there is a compelling argument to violating the normal > definition of standard_name for the case of ISO date-time strings. Or on the > other hand is it preferable to use the units attribute to indicate the use of > an ISO date-time string? That is the thought question. > > - Steve > > >> >> -Aleksandar >> _______________________________________________ >> CF-metadata mailing list >> CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu >> http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
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