Hi Bjorge:
Since you are explicitly writing the netcdf elements, we were expecting that
you could write the correct values there without having to translate through a
DateFormat. Is that not so? (see below also)
Unidata Support wrote:
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Subject: NcML Aggregation in THREDDS
Organization: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center - Bergen
Keywords: 200512201217.jBKCH47s009594 THREDDS NcML aggregation
Hi,
I am currently rewriting our xml-files to use the new aggregation
functionality in Thredds 3.4. I have looked over all the documentation I
could find on thredds and NcML but still have one unansvered Q. Hope you
can help:
In the old version we used AggServer with an xml-statement like this:
...
<aggregation serviceName=".." aggType=".." varType=".." varUnit".."
dateFormat="yyyy/M/d:hh:mm:ss z">
<fileAccess urlPath="long_name_b20030604_f200305289999.nc"
coord="2003/05/28:00:00:00 GMT" />
...
...
My remaining Q is where I should write dateFormat now. I have something
like this:
...
<variable name="time" type="int" shape="time">
<attribute name="units" value=".." />
<attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" value="Time" />
</variable>
Here you are defining a time coordinate of dataType "int"
<aggregation dimName="time" type="joinNew">
<variableAgg name="T" />
netcdf location="long_name_b20030604_f200305289999.nc"
coord=""2003/05/28:00:00:00 GMT" />
But you are giving it String values.
Do you have the ability to write ISO 8601 date strings? If so, I would change the type of the time coordinate to String and do that.
...
...
Since I am not using the scan tag I cannot use the dateFormatMark either
(which would not work on this example anyway since the filename is not
the same in front of the #-mark, which would have to be after the '_f').
We will also add regular expression matcher for that case.
Hope you understand my question and find time to answer.
Thankyou!
