Reading in ASCII and creating time axis therefrom...

[strandwg@xxxxxxxx (Gary Strand)]

OK, I'm just not getting it. Here's my data and how I think it needs to be
read it to create a time series:

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1996 06 26 1.20  6 1.55  1 2.85  0  7.13 4.03 4.16
1996 07 26 1.20  6 1.55 15 2.85  1  8.23 4.65 4.80
1996 08 26 1.20  6 1.55 11 2.85  0  8.23 4.65 4.80
1996 09 25 1.20  6 1.55 11 2.85  0  8.23 4.65 4.80
1996 10 25 1.20  6 1.55  1 2.85  0  8.23 4.65 4.80
[...]

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!
file/var=yy,mm,dd,vr1,vu1,vr2,vu2,vr3,vu3,vww,vsf,vuf water
!
let time = DAYS1900(yy,mm,dd)-DAYS1900(1996,1,1)
define axis/t/from_data/name=tax/units="days"/t0="1-JAN-1996" time
define grid/t=tax gg
!
let/title="rate  1" r1 = vr1[g=gg@asn]
[...]
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But alas, I get no time axis information from the netCDF file:

netcdf test {
dimensions:
        XAX1_55 = 55 ;
variables:
        double XAX1_55(XAX1_55) ;
                XAX1_55:point_spacing = "even" ;
        float R1(XAX1_55) ;
                R1:missing_value = -1.e+34f ;
                R1:_FillValue = -1.e+34f ;
                R1:long_name = "rate  1" ;
                R1:history = "From water" ;

[...]
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Where in my "define_axis" am I going wrong? Thanks!
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Gary Strand                Climate Change Research Section, NCAR (303) 497-1336
strandwg@ucar.edu                          http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/strandwg