Yet more NetCDF garbage

Why is this always so broken?

print.nc(nc)

  float time(time) ;
                time:long_name = "Time" ;
                time:standard_name = "time" ;
                time:units = "days since 1950-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" ;

                time:calendar = "julian" ;

...  

 :comment = "Surface product; Seasonal Climatology of Sea Level Anomalies referenced to the [1993, 2012] period" ;

var.get.nc(nc, "time")

[1] 45

Right, 45 days since January 1 1950. I don't think so.