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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7817#issuecomment-1537031554 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7817 1537031554 IC_kwDOAMm_X85bnT2C 2448579 2023-05-06T03:23:13Z 2023-05-06T03:23:13Z MEMBER

because CFMaskCoder will convert the variable to floating point and insert "NaN". In CFDatetimeCoder the floating point is cast back to int64 to transform into datetime64.

Can we reverse the order so that CFDatetimeCoder handles _FillValue for datetime arrays, and then it will be skipped in CFMaskCoder

 
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