diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index be3386e10bbc5c5522d4bd83dfa96b02761d81d6..c0a4b58d7983dddf596f5b57f81437e99908cc65 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2024-09-19  Uwe Schulzweida
+
+	* Version 2.4.4 released
+
+2024-09-18  Uwe Schulzweida
+
+	* absolute timeaxis failed with timeunits seconds [Bug #11916]
+
 2024-08-14  Uwe Schulzweida
 
 	* Version 2.4.3 released
diff --git a/src/stream_cdf_time.c b/src/stream_cdf_time.c
index 62d8a29a998dce7b3e5354307134a6c28b5040a4..dc594c44d4d14dd8080fc484636b7cdff7f8ecfb 100644
--- a/src/stream_cdf_time.c
+++ b/src/stream_cdf_time.c
@@ -203,11 +203,9 @@ cdfDefTime(stream_t *streamptr)
     }
   else
     {
-      /* define bogus value since at this time, streamDefTimestep has
-       * not been called yet
-       * but since taxis->units is not set, it clearly will not
-       * exceed the size of unitstr_, i.e. when defining the units
-       * attribute to this value, a later redefinition will not
+      /* define bogus value since at this time, streamDefTimestep has not been called yet
+       * but since taxis->units is not set, it clearly will not exceed the size of unitstr_,
+       * i.e. when defining the units attribute to this value, a later redefinition will not
        * cause a recreation of on-disk data
        */
       for (size_t i = 0; i < CDF_MAX_TIME_UNIT_STR; ++i) unitsStr_[i] = 'a';
diff --git a/src/taxis.c b/src/taxis.c
index a22ffb4e27cb83a6ebc188fd7f2d9ce5bccc1737..5acf45b5715e6dba9f64f41f1473927f3a56ddfd 100644
--- a/src/taxis.c
+++ b/src/taxis.c
@@ -1289,6 +1289,7 @@ cdi_decode_timeval(double timevalue, const taxis_t *taxis)
   return (taxis->type == TAXIS_ABSOLUTE) ? split_timevalue(timevalue, taxis->unit) : rtimeval2datetime(timevalue, taxis);
 }
 
+/*
 static int64_t
 datetime2seconds(CdiDateTime datetime)
 {
@@ -1305,7 +1306,7 @@ datetime2seconds(CdiDateTime datetime)
 
   return seconds;
 }
-
+*/
 double
 cdi_encode_timeval(CdiDateTime datetime, taxis_t *taxis)
 {
@@ -1322,10 +1323,12 @@ cdi_encode_timeval(CdiDateTime datetime, taxis_t *taxis)
           int64_t xdate = cdiDate_get(datetime.date);
           timeValue = (double) xdate / 100 + copysign((double) (datetime.date.day != 0) * 0.5, (double) xdate);
         }
+      /*
       else if (taxis->unit == TUNIT_SECOND)
         {
           timeValue = (double) datetime2seconds(datetime);
         }
+      */
       else
         {
           int hour, minute, second, ms;