Hi John, Patrick,
Quick sleuthing. Looking at the OPeNDAP HTML page I see that the units
of the time axis are "months since 1901-01-01 00:00:00"
It's miraculous that the two interpretations differ by a mere 21 minutes
out of a 50 year offset from T0, considering that "months" is not a
standardized time unit. CF advises that "/...the unit month ...
should be used with caution/". An understatement that might better be
stated as (say) "/units of months should not be used in any case where
the desired precision in the specification of the date is finer than 1
day/" (to be on the safe side).
- Steve
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On 4/11/2013 11:30 AM, John Caron wrote:
Hi Patrick:
So WMS datetimes are probably being done through ncWms, using Joda
Time library, whereas the TDS opendap service will not interpret the
dates, so it must be the ferret client, presumably using udunits C
library.
Its hard to imagine 2 date libraries getting different answers, but
since one is done on the server, and the other on the client, it must
be the difference in the gravitational attraction of the moon between
the two locations, causing a slight difference in the length of the
month.
Do you by any chance know what is the correct answer?
John
On 4/9/2013 7:08 PM, Patrick Brockmann wrote:
Hi all,
I have a strange behaviour with time dimension values exposed by the
GetCapabilities
and values get from an OPeNDAP access.
Could someone explain me what is the source of the problem ?
http://webportals.ipsl.jussieu.fr/thredds/wms/CARBON/CARBONES_PRIOR_orchidee_hadgem2-es_historical_nosoc_co2_npp_monthly_1951_2004_yearmonmean_3.nc?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
---> 1951-07-16T12:12:04.339Z, ....
And from the OPeNDAP access with ferret client, I get
ferret
yes? use
"http://webportals.ipsl.jussieu.fr/thredds/dodsC/CARBON/CARBONES_PRIOR_orchidee_hadgem2-es_historical_nosoc_co2_npp_monthly_1951_2004_yearmonmean_3.nc";
yes? sg/t/l=1:10 npp2
GRID GTL2
name axis # pts start end
MYLON LONGITUDE 720mr 0E 0.5W
LAT LATITUDE 360 r 89.75S 89.75N
normal Z
TIME TIME 54 r 16-JUL-1951 12:33 15-JUL-2004
09:01
L T TBOX TBOXLO TSTEP (months)
1> 16-JUL-1951 12:33:59 12 14-JAN-1951 21:39:23
606.4526
2> 15-JUL-1952 18:23:11 12 15-JAN-1952 03:28:35
618.4526
3> 16-JUL-1953 00:12:23 12 14-JAN-1953 09:17:47
630.4526
--> Note the difference between 1951-07-16T12:12:04.339Z and
16-JUL-1951 12:33:59
My TDS version is Version 4.3.15 - 20121218.1126
Regards
Patrick
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