convert Float32 time variable to Float64 before converting them to DateTime

Author: Alexander-Barth

src/time.jl

@@ -514,6 +514,11 @@ function timeunits(units, calendar = "standard")
     return timeunits(DT,units)
 end
 
+function timedecode(::Type{DT},data::AbstractArray{Float32,N},units) where {DT,N}
+    # convert to Float64
+    return timedecode(DT,Float64.(data),units)
+end
+
 function timedecode(::Type{DT},data,units) where DT
     t0,plength = timeunits(DT,units)
     convert(x) = t0 + Dates.Millisecond(round(Int64,plength * x))

test/test_time.jl

@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ end
     [2455512.375]
 
 
+@test timedecode(DateTime,[22280.0f0],"days since 1950-01-01 00:00:00") == [DateTime(2011,1,1)]
+
 @test_throws ErrorException timeencode(
     [DateTimeJulian(2010,10,29,9,0,0)],
     "days since -4713-01-01T00:00:00","360_day")