Re: time attributes in xml metadata

[Joe Wielgosz <joew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found this happening for my datasets too. The problem seems to be a 
bug in LASNetCDF.pm. Try the attached patch..

- Joe

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 02:42 PM, <linton.corbet@csiro.au> 
wrote:

> I have been encountering a problem with setting up
> netCDF files to use with LAS.
>
> When i run
> > perl perl/addXml.pl --out_inc perl/template.xml nc_file.xml
>   /../nc_file.nc
>
>
> nc_file.xml is generated.
> Inside this, i expect to find:
>
> <nc_file_nc_time units="hour" type="t">
>    <arrange start = "2003-01-01 00:00:00"
>             step = "12"
>             size = "17" />
> </nc_file_nc_time>
>
> However, some of the attributes get mixed up. What
> i really get is:
>
> <nc_file_nc_time units="12" type="t">
>    <arrange start = "hour"
>             step = "2003-01-01 00:00:00"
>             size = "17" />
> </nc_file_nc_time>
>
> Strangley, the latitude and longitude variables
> both turn out ok.
>
> In nc_file.nc the time is as follows:
>  float time(time) ;
>         time:units = "hours since 2003-01-05 00:00" ;
>
> and the file works perfectly with ferret, grads, on it's own.
> > From all angles it is 100% coads compliant.
> The version i am running is
>      LAS (Live Access Server) 6.0
>
> So,
>  is there something i can do, or a problem with my netCDF file,
>  that will allow me to generate a properly working xml dataset?
>
> Regards,
>  Linton.
Joe Wielgosz / joew@cola.iges.org
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