Issues with dates with non default unit

[philippjfr]

This is more of a usage question so apologies if this is the incorrect place to ask this. I'm trying to plot some xarray data but am running into issues with dates that have custom 'days since x' units, e.g. adapting the example from the README this code errors for me:

import random

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import xarray as xr
import nc_time_axis
import cftime

dates = xr.cftime_range(start='0001', periods=24, freq='MS', calendar='noleap')
c_d_time = [nc_time_axis.CalendarDateTime(item, "noleap") for item in dates]
temperatures = [round(random.uniform(0, 12), 3) for _ in range(len(c_d_time))]

plt.plot(c_d_time, temperatures)
plt.margins(0.1)
plt.ylim(0, 12)
plt.xlabel("Date")
plt.ylabel("Temperature")
plt.show()

ValueError: invalid year provided in cftime.DatetimeNoLeap(0, 10, 23, 2, 24, 0, 8, 3, 296)

Apologies if I've missed something obvious but I would appreciate a pointer on how to deal with dates like this.

[philippjfr]

I think this is simply due to an old version of cftime (1.0.0 vs 1.0.2.1).