OverflowError: date value out of range in num2date · Issue #659 · Unidata/netcdf4-python (original) (raw)

Hi,

I am trying to convert this object using num2date. However I get OverflowError: date value out of range
What could possibly cause this behaviour and how it can be fixed. Thanks.

<type 'netCDF4._netCDF4.Variable'>
float64 time(time)
units: days since 1800-01-01 00:00:0.0
long_name: Time
actual_range: [-657073. -656739.]
delta_t: 0000-01-00 00:00:00
avg_period: 0030-00-00 00:00:00
prev_avg_period: 0000-00-07 00:00:00
ltm_range: [ 58804. 69730.]
standard_name: time
axis: T
unlimited dimensions: time
current shape = (12,)
filling off

times = f.variables['time']

times[:]
array([-657073., -657042., -657014., -656983., -656953., -656922.,
-656892., -656861., -656830., -656800., -656769., -656739.])

times.units
u'days since 1800-01-01 00:00:0.0'

netCDF4.version
'1.2.7'