diff --git a/tsg_io/readTsgDataNetCDF.m b/tsg_io/readTsgDataNetCDF.m
index 98a578f170e5d8924e0469c488bd456887e3a2d2..c19ea129c456dc263be2412838ed74abd7934ce3 100644
--- a/tsg_io/readTsgDataNetCDF.m
+++ b/tsg_io/readTsgDataNetCDF.m
@@ -189,11 +189,13 @@ automaticQC( hMainFig )
         tsg.(var) = julianToDatenum(tsg.(var));
       end
       
-      % save in tsg structure attribute conventions for DATE viariables
+      % save in tsg structure attribute conventions for DATE variables
       % ---------------------------------------------------------------
       if strfind(var, 'DATE')
         if strcmp(nc.VARIABLES.(var).conventions, 'yyyymmddhhmmss')
           tsg.conventions.(var) = 'yyyymmddHHMMSS';
+        elseif strcmp(nc.VARIABLES.(var).conventions, 'YYYYMMDDHHMISS')
+          tsg.conventions.(var) = 'yyyymmddHHMMSS';
         else
           tsg.conventions.(var) = nc.VARIABLES.(var).conventions;
         end