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101857508 MDU6SXNzdWUxMDE4NTc1MDg= 540 allow custom 'units' when saving datetimes to netCDF 358378 closed 0     2 2015-08-19T10:24:22Z 2016-04-08T18:48:31Z 2016-04-08T18:48:31Z CONTRIBUTOR      

when manually setting the units attribute of a DataArray containing datetime types, the error

ValueError: Failed hard to prevent overwriting key 'units'

is raised.

It would be good to allow custom units, because currently the units seem to be days since FIRST_TIMESTEP, which leads to different units for different variables within the same Dataset.

 
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