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/1472#issuecomment-314154076,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1472,314154076,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNDE1NDA3Ng==,3698640,2017-07-10T16:08:30Z,2017-07-10T16:08:30Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"I wasn't misled by the docs, just by my intuition. But now that you've made the distinction between `'2012'` and `'2012-12-31'` this totally makes sense: ```python In [24]: arr.sel(time='2012') Out[24]: array([[ 0.244146, 0.702819, 0.06614 , 0.211758]]) Coordinates: * age (age) object 'age0' 'age1' 'age2' 'age3' * time (time) datetime64[ns] 2012-12-31 In [25]: arr.sel(time='2012-12-31') Out[25]: array([ 0.244146, 0.702819, 0.06614 , 0.211758]) Coordinates: * age (age) object 'age0' 'age1' 'age2' 'age3' time datetime64[ns] 2012-12-31 In [26]: arr.sel(time=np.datetime64('2012-12-31')) Out[26]: array([ 0.244146, 0.702819, 0.06614 , 0.211758]) Coordinates: * age (age) object 'age0' 'age1' 'age2' 'age3' time datetime64[ns] 2012-12-31 ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,241389297 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1472#issuecomment-314136206,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1472,314136206,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMxNDEzNjIwNg==,3698640,2017-07-10T15:10:50Z,2017-07-10T15:10:50Z,CONTRIBUTOR,thanks for the schooling. learned something new!,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,241389297