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<p>Dear Dave,</p>
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<p>Thank you for the input.</p>
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<p>So for example, in my NCL Script I would have a code that reads in the time values like this:<br>
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<pre style="overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>times = wrf_user_getvar(f,"times",-1) ; get all times in the file</em><br></pre>
<p>How then would I add the 8 hours to the "<em>times</em>" which I have read into memory?<br>
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<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.
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<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>
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<div>If Valid Time is string rather than numeric, you must translate it to numeric time coordinates before adding the offset.</div>
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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 this
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