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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1621#issuecomment-614893356 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1621 614893356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYxNDg5MzM1Ng== 1217238 2020-04-16T21:01:01Z 2020-04-16T21:01:01Z MEMBER

I still think the ideal path forward is https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1621#issuecomment-339116478, but clearly nobody was excited about taking on this effort :).

I do still think we probably should retain a way to serialize/unserialize timedelta64 data before we switch the default behavior, rather than breaking existing users without any recourse.

That said, we certainly could add an optional flag for disabling decoding to timedelta64 (e.g., decode_timedelta=False in open_dataset/decode_cf) now, without changing anything else in xarray. The default flag switch could be saved until later, when the new timedelta64 serialization (steps 1 and 2 from above) works.

 
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