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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear NCL Users,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wrote a HDF5 file in Java by IHDF5Writer <a href="http://svnsis.ethz.ch/doc/openbis/S176.0/ch/systemsx/cisd/hdf5/IHDF5Writer.html">
http://svnsis.ethz.ch/doc/openbis/S176.0/ch/systemsx/cisd/hdf5/IHDF5Writer.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because IHDF5Writer can write timestamps as number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT<span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#353833;background:white">
</span>I converted the java.Util.Date to serial date number as days since 1970-01-01.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I wrote the time values into HDF5 file<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">writer.writeDoubleArray("time", time);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">writer.string().setAttr("time", "units", "days since 1970-01-01");<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I checked the resulted test.h5 in NCL and printed the time variable and I got the following result:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">fn = "test.h5"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">fi = addfile(fn, "r")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">time = fi->time<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">time1 = time(0)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">print(time1)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Variable: time1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Type: double<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Total Size: 8 bytes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> 1 values<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Number Of Attributes: 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> units : days since 1970-01-01tyeratelatedofileion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">(0) 17348.00006944444<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Can someone let me know why ncl receive a strange units? <o:p>
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