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 Package: startR
 Title: Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets
-Version: 1.0.2
+Version: 1.0.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("BSC-CNS", role = c("aut", "cph")),
     person("Nicolau", "Manubens", , "nicolau.manubens@bsc.es", role = c("aut")),
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-# startR v1.0.3 (Release date: 2020-)
+# startR v1.0.3 (Release date: 2020-06-19)
 - Bugfix for requiring the repetitive values from a single file when using 
 'merge_across_dims' and 'split_multiselected_dims'. The value positions were not 
 correct before.
+- Specify the time zone to be 'UTC' regarding time attributes retrieval. The time zone 
+was not specified before and it caused problems when the time crosses daylight saving.
   
 # startR v1.0.2 (Release date: 2020-05-11)
 - Bugfix for longitude transformation when the required grid point across the borders. The bug apprears at v1.0.0 and v1.0.1.