Controlrun, time format issue

[stinsage]

For the piControl files in the CanESM5 model data in CMIP6, the time is not given in Datetime64, but in the following format:

<xarray.DataArray 'time' (time: 13980)>
array([cftime.DatetimeNoLeap(5201, 1, 16, 12, 0, 0, 0, 1, 16),
cftime.DatetimeNoLeap(5201, 2, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 46),
cftime.DatetimeNoLeap(5201, 3, 16, 12, 0, 0, 0, 4, 75), ...,
cftime.DatetimeNoLeap(6200, 10, 16, 12, 0, 0, 0, 6, 289),
cftime.DatetimeNoLeap(6200, 11, 16, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 320),
cftime.DatetimeNoLeap(6200, 12, 16, 12, 0, 0, 0, 4, 350)], dtype=object)
Coordinates:
height float64 2.0

• time (time) object 5201-01-16 12:00:00 ... 6200-12-16 12:00:00
  Attributes:
  bounds: time_bnds
  axis: T
  long_name: time
  standard_name: time

How to convert from this into datetime64?

[daliagachc]

hi! the solution is explained in this issue here