<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">It is better to not change your data files for something like this. I do not think NCL has a function that can handle time zone translation. If anyone knows of such a function, please let us know.<div><div><br></div><div>However, you can adjust Valid Time in your NCL plot program, after you read the WRF data into memory. Simply add 8 hours. The actual number to add must be scaled to the input time units, such as "days" or "hours".</div><div><br></div><div>If Valid Time is string rather than numeric, you must translate it to numeric time coordinates before adding the offset.</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 9:04 AM Mohd Noor'Arifin Bin Hj Yussof via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>How do I change the time on the "Valid Time" on WRF NCL Plots? The time in the wrfout files are all in UTC and I want to change it to my local time by adding +8 hours to it. <span style="font-size:12pt">H</span><span style="font-size:12pt">ow can I do
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<p>Thanks in advance!<br>
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