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which returns the nth value from the current netcdf variable.
Time variables (Metview 5)
Variables which are detected to be of 'time' type (e.g. attribute standard_name='time', plus other checks) are, by default, retrieved by the value() and values() functions as a date or a list of dates. This behaviour can be toggled calling the function netcdf_auto_translate_times() with an argument of 1 or 0 to activate/deactivate the translation to dates. If deactivated, the value() and values() functions will instead return a number or a vector of raw numbers as they are encoded in the variable.