<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Samy,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the future, please post NCL questions to <a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a> and not <a href="mailto:ncarg-talk@ucar.edu">ncarg-talk@ucar.edu</a>:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/email_lists.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/email_lists.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I recommend the use of &quot;time_axis_labels&quot; to format the time axis:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/time_axis_labels.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/time_axis_labels.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">See our time axis examples page:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/time_labels.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/time_labels.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Good luck,</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:34 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ratebsamy@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ratebsamy@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_2960" dir="ltr">Dear Ms.Mary,</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3009"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3010">Good afternoon. I have a netcdf file for precipitation and I made a time series from area average and I would like to know how to control the time axis so it can be like this (01-Jan-1995, 01-Apr-1995, 01-Julu-1995, ..., etc). I tried to do this but I couldn&#39;t. Can you guide me to add an option to control the time axis? I would be so grateful.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3067"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3068">I attached the ncl script I used. Also I used the last version of ncl</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3215"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3216">Sorry for disruption.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3211"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3069">Cheers</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3070"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-3687012940200363558yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495021642752_3071">Samy <br></div></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>