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/1467#issuecomment-311621960,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1467,311621960,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxMTYyMTk2MA==,743508,2017-06-28T10:33:33Z,2017-06-28T10:33:33Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"I think I do mean 'years' in the CF convention sense, in this case the time dimension is: ``` double time(time=145); :standard_name = ""time""; :units = ""years since 1860-1-1 12:00:00""; :calendar = ""proleptic_gregorian""; ``` This is correctly interpreted by the NASA Panoply NetCDF file viewer. From glancing at the `xarray` code, it seems it depends on the pandas Timedelta object which in turn doesn't support years as delta objects (although date ranges can be generated at year intervals so it should be possible to implement). ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,238990919