From 5c508dbcc454618c733aebde4b9252c6b1868fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Barth <barth.alexander@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 11:54:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] convert Float32 time variable to Float64 before converting
 them to DateTime

---
 src/time.jl       | 5 +++++
 test/test_time.jl | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/time.jl b/src/time.jl
index 4b526976..f5dcf698 100644
--- a/src/time.jl
+++ b/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))
diff --git a/test/test_time.jl b/test/test_time.jl
index 3404775b..3bff3caa 100644
--- a/test/test_time.jl
+++ b/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")