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/827#issuecomment-1011121158,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/827,1011121158,IC_kwDOAMm_X848RHwG,6514690,2022-01-12T14:48:24Z,2022-01-12T14:48:24Z,NONE,Also mentioned in #4422 and fixed in #4506,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,148876551
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/827#issuecomment-457975000,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/827,457975000,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ1Nzk3NTAwMA==,26384082,2019-01-28T01:41:04Z,2019-01-28T01:41:04Z,NONE,"In order to maintain a list of currently relevant issues, we mark issues as stale after a period of inactivity
If this issue remains relevant, please comment here; otherwise it will be marked as closed automatically
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,148876551
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/827#issuecomment-211471850,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/827,211471850,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDIxMTQ3MTg1MA==,8363752,2016-04-18T16:54:57Z,2016-04-18T16:54:57Z,NONE,"I would rather stick only with xarray, but iris solved the issue for now...

Another alternative is to use NCO  an do something like:`ncatted -O -a units,time,o,c,'days since 0001-01-01 00:00:00'`
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,148876551
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/827#issuecomment-211120008,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/827,211120008,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDIxMTEyMDAwOA==,8363752,2016-04-17T21:36:09Z,2016-04-17T21:36:09Z,NONE,"ds.time.encoding results in

```
{'dtype': dtype('float64'),
 'original_shape': (81,),
 'source': 'http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs_0p25/gfs20160417/gfs_0p25_00z',
 'units': u'days since 1-1-1 00:00:0.0'}
```

I tried to use ds.to_netcdf('filename.nc', encoding={'time': {'units': u'days since 1-1-1 00:00:0.0'}}), but ncdump still shows ""time"" as having ""days since 2001-01-01"" as reference time:

```
double time(time) ;
        string time:grads_dim = ""t"" ;
        string time:grads_mapping = ""linear"" ;
        string time:grads_size = ""81"" ;
        string time:grads_min = ""00z17apr2016"" ;
        string time:grads_step = ""3hr"" ;
        string time:long_name = ""time"" ;
        string time:minimum = ""00z17apr2016"" ;
        string time:maximum = ""00z27apr2016"" ;
        time:resolution = 0.125f ;
        string time:units = ""days since 2001-01-01"" ;
        time:calendar = ""proleptic_gregorian"" ;

```
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