From 46141c38785cae78c4db63a39bebb90e92e5bbee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Jones <pwjones@lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 11:26:52 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Changed FillValue for the CF time field

---
 components/omega/src/infra/Field.cpp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/components/omega/src/infra/Field.cpp b/components/omega/src/infra/Field.cpp
index 9a165960db13..13e35b5aa625 100644
--- a/components/omega/src/infra/Field.cpp
+++ b/components/omega/src/infra/Field.cpp
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ int Field::init(const Clock *ModelClock // [in] default model clock
    CalendarKind CalKind     = Calendar::getKind();
    std::string CalName      = CalendarCFName[CalKind];
    std::vector<std::string> DimNames; // empty dim names vector
-   std::shared_ptr<Field> TimeField =
-       create("time", "time", UnitString, "time", 0.0, 1.e20, 0.0, 0, DimNames);
+   std::shared_ptr<Field> TimeField = create("time", "time", UnitString, "time",
+                                             0.0, 1.e20, -9.99e30, 0, DimNames);
    TimeField->addMetadata("calendar", CalName);
 
    return Err;