html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2565#issuecomment-441228064,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2565,441228064,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ0MTIyODA2NA==,10050469,2018-11-23T12:23:00Z,2018-11-23T12:24:17Z,MEMBER,"Good points! 

> I do notice the time variable in your file has a bounds attribute, which points to the name time_bnds. Is that something required by CF conventions? We might be able to rely on that.

Yes, `bounds` is a CF name: 
http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.7/cf-conventions.html#cell-boundaries 

It seems reasonable to assume that the bounds should share the same units as time, therefore I think that the workaround you are using could actually be implemented in xarray, but the actual implementation might be a bit messy... 

(it would be much simpler if CF would prescribe the units to also be available at the the `time_bnds` level...)","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,383791450
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2565#issuecomment-441222614,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2565,441222614,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ0MTIyMjYxNA==,10050469,2018-11-23T11:54:14Z,2018-11-23T11:54:14Z,MEMBER,I am actually in favor of 3: also decode `time_bnds`,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,383791450