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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).

 
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