CLIMATE-938 Unify format of the time information from a netCDF file.
diff --git a/ocw/dataset_processor.py b/ocw/dataset_processor.py
index 0bb19dd..a167acc 100755
--- a/ocw/dataset_processor.py
+++ b/ocw/dataset_processor.py
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@
:raises: ValueError
'''
+
# https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLIMATE-938
# netCDF datetimes allow for a variety of calendars while Python has
# only one. This would throw an error about a calendar mismatch when
@@ -511,13 +512,17 @@
# Cast the date as best we can so the comparison will compare like
# data types This will still throw an excdeption if the start / end date are
# not valid in given calendar. February 29th in a DatetimeNoLeap calendar for example.
- slice_start_time =\
- type(target_dataset.times.item(0))(start_time.year, start_time.month, start_time.day,
- start_time.hour, start_time.minute, start_time.second)
+ slice_start_time = start_time
+ slice_end_time = end_time
- slice_end_time =\
- type(target_dataset.times.item(0))(end_time.year, end_time.month, end_time.day,
- end_time.hour, end_time.minute, end_time.second)
+ if isinstance(target_dataset.times.item(0), netCDF4.netcdftime._netcdftime.datetime):
+ slice_start_time =\
+ type(target_dataset.times.item(0))(start_time.year, start_time.month, start_time.day,
+ start_time.hour, start_time.minute, start_time.second)
+
+ slice_end_time =\
+ type(target_dataset.times.item(0))(end_time.year, end_time.month, end_time.day,
+ end_time.hour, end_time.minute, end_time.second)
start_time_index = np.where(
target_dataset.times >= slice_start_time)[0][0]
