<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Etienne Tourigny <<a href="mailto:etiennesky@yahoo.com">etiennesky@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I just tried compiling and running grads-1.9b4 on centos 4.4 x86_64 and<br>encountered the following problem with netcdf files:<br>
<br>the dates are messed up, the days appear OK but the year is a huge and<br>unrelated number, for example<br><br>Time = 21Z31JAN4697254411347429307 to 21Z31DEC4697254411347429307<br>instead of<br>Time = 21Z31JAN1979 to 21Z31DEC1979<br>
<br>when I open the file, the date is ok but if I use "set t" or "set time"<br>commands, the years change to weird values.<br><br>I tried various pre-compiled versions of grads (on <a href="http://centos.karan.org/" target="_blank">centos.karan.org</a>), and<br>
the netcdf utilies seem fine, because the dates appear OK in ncview. I<br>suspect it is related to the 64-bit platform? Or perhaps udunits? I was<br>unable to compile it myself and used the version from <a href="http://centos.karan.org/" target="_blank">centos.karan.org</a><br>
<br>I would really appreciate any help.<br>thanks Etienne<br></blockquote></div>
<div>Have you tried the v1.9.0-rc1 builds on <a href="http://sf.net">sf.net</a>:</div>
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<div>I'd try both i686 and x86_64 builds.</div>
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<div> Arlindo</div>
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<div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a> </div>