Sdf time units

[Don Hooper]

Steve Ghan,

What are the first two values of the time coordinate variable?
It computes the difference between the two, using the units attribute,
to decide whether to print that error message.

-Hoop
> From owner-gradsusr at LIST.CINECA.IT  Thu Jan 20 17:30:08 2005
> From: "Ghan, Steven J" <Steve.Ghan at PNL.GOV>
>
> I've created a netcdf file with time units attribute defined as
>
> time:units  = 'days since 1980-11-1 00:00:00 '
>
> But sdfopen yields the result
>
> SDF: Time unit has too small an increment for use with GrADS (min,
> 1minute).
>
> According to all of the documentation I have seen, it should have
> worked. Any ideas?
>
> I'm using grads 1.8 on a redhat 7.3 system.
>
> -Steve Ghan