Calendar attribute for time variable

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keyword_maygit owner:[email protected] type_code improvement | by cmt599

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Could you please add the attribute 'calendar' to the time coordinate variable in the offline code? Typical values for this would be 'standard' and 'noleap', consistent with NetCDF Climate and Forecast metadata conventions http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/netcdf/CF-20010629.htm#cal

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Issue migrated from trac:159 at 2023-11-27 11:22:02 +1100

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@[email protected] changed owner from bep599 to pxb599

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@[email protected] commented

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Since Peter already have implemented that in his branch, there is no need to reinvent the wheel.

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@[email protected] changed milestone from `` to 6. Report

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@[email protected] changed owner from pxb599 to jxs599

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@[email protected] commented

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pxb599 - Peter Briggs - also pcb599 @ NCI - but there are no committed changes in his repo branch. Contacted Cathy for comment.

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@[email protected] commented

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I'm resurrecting this. I really don't understand why we only use the "standard" calendar for leap years. And we always put a "noleap" calendar for no-leap years. This is creating a mayhem when trying to read in a long-time series with the time axis being inconsistent between years.

I want to simplify this so:

• if leap = .True., calendar="standard"
• if leap = .False., calendar="noleap"

I still need to check if it is possible for all cases without side-effects. Will update when I know more.