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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3739#issuecomment-580860461 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3739 580860461 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU4MDg2MDQ2MQ== 1197350 2020-01-31T18:46:19Z 2020-01-31T18:46:19Z MEMBER

Hi @avatar101 - thanks for your issue!

I couldn't fully reproduce your example, since it references files that I don't have access to. For the future, please consider trying to create a "Minimal, Complete and Verifiable Example" (MCVE): (http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2018/02/28/minimal-bug-reports)

In the meantime, I do have a suggestion you could try. Instead of python ds_test.time.attrs['units'] = "Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00" try python ds_test.time.encoding['units'] = "Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00"

The reason is that, since you have created your time coordinate using pd.date_range, which returns a datetime64 dtype, that variable is already considered to be encoded.

 
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