Time limitation (between years 1678 and 2262) restrictive to climate community · Issue #789 · pydata/xarray (original) (raw)

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Description

The restriction of

One unfortunate limitation of using datetime64[ns] is that it limits the native representation of dates to
those that fall between the years 1678 and 2262. When a netCDF file contains dates outside of these
bounds, dates will be returned as arrays of netcdftime.datetime objects.

is a potential roadblock inhibiting easy adoption of this library in the climate community.