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-`CFTime` encodes and decodes time units conforming to the Climate and Forecasting (CF) netCDF conventions.
+`CFTime` encodes and decodes time units conforming to the [Climate and Forecasting (CF) conventions](https://cfconventions.org/).
 `CFTime` was split out of the [NCDatasets](https://github.com/Alexander-Barth/NCDatasets.jl) julia package.