On Aug 18, 2011, at 6:23 PM, John Caron ca...@unidata.ucar.edu wrote:
In order to do calculations
with times, which are often necessary, we need to be able to convert them
into
a form which has a fixed-length unit since a reference time (like udunits),
even though that isn't the most
On 8/19/2011 7:48 AM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
On Aug 19, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Jon Blower wrote:
Hi Chris,
Does the calendar system usually define whether leap-seconds are taken into
account or not?
Generally speaking, I don't believe so, if only because calendar systems
Regarding paleoclimate, a point I forgot is that some modellers may
wish to
have years which are very large negative numbers (many more than four
digits)
if they set up the model with the true date for the run. Although for
geological timescales you might say that this isn't necessary and you
On Aug 19, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Karl Taylor wrote:
Hi all,
My understanding is that leap-seconds are inserted so that the calendar
remains (almost) perfectly synchronized with the seasons. If, under the CF
convention, leap seconds are ignored and time is recorded as, say, days
since
