diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3fb284a1..6e18044c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,8 +6,18 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Added
+### Changed
+### Deprecated 
+### Removed
+### Fixed
+### Security
+
+
+## [2.11.0]
+### Added
 - [issue/267](https://github.com/podaac/l2ss-py/pull/261): Add xtrack and atrack dimension options for get_nd_indexers when bounding box subsetting is performed on SNDR.
 - Fix temporal subsetting ghrsst dataset by adding time delta to time variable.
+- Add a function to test ghrsst dataset ability to access variables when mask_and_scale is true. 
 ### Changed
 ### Deprecated 
 ### Removed
diff --git a/podaac/subsetter/subset.py b/podaac/subsetter/subset.py
index 2cc66381..d1b9e461 100644
--- a/podaac/subsetter/subset.py
+++ b/podaac/subsetter/subset.py
@@ -1134,6 +1134,38 @@ def decode_cf_datetime(num_dates, units, calendar=None, use_cftime=None):
     xarray.coding.times.decode_cf_datetime = decode_cf_datetime
 
 
+def test_access_sst_dtime_values(datafile):
+    """
+    Test accessing values of 'sst_dtime' variable in a NetCDF file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    datafile (str): Path to the NetCDF file.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    access_successful (bool): True if 'sst_dtime' values are accessible, False otherwise.
+    """
+
+    nc_dataset, _, _ = open_as_nc_dataset(datafile)
+    args = {
+        'decode_coords': False,
+        'mask_and_scale': True,
+        'decode_times': True
+    }
+    try:
+        with xr.open_dataset(
+                xr.backends.NetCDF4DataStore(nc_dataset),
+                **args
+        ) as dataset:
+            # pylint: disable=pointless-statement
+            for var_name in dataset.variables:
+                dataset[var_name].values
+    except (TypeError, ValueError, KeyError):
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
 def subset(file_to_subset: str, bbox: np.ndarray, output_file: str,
            variables: Union[List[str], str, None] = (),
            # pylint: disable=too-many-branches, disable=too-many-statements
@@ -1239,14 +1271,10 @@ def subset(file_to_subset: str, bbox: np.ndarray, output_file: str,
             if (getattr(time_var, '_FillValue', None) == fill_value_f8 and time_var.dtype in float_dtypes) or \
                (getattr(time_var, 'long_name', None) == "reference time of sst file"):
                 args['mask_and_scale'] = True
+                if getattr(time_var, 'long_name', None) == "reference time of sst file":
+                    args['mask_and_scale'] = test_access_sst_dtime_values(file_to_subset)
                 break
 
-            try:
-                if nc_dataset[time_variable].long_name == "reference time of sst file":
-                    args['mask_and_scale'] = True
-            except AttributeError:
-                pass
-
     if hdf_type == 'GPM':
         args['decode_times'] = False
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e8cccef2..314290d7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "l2ss-py"
-version = "2.12.0a0"
+version = "2.11.0rc7"
 description = "L2 Subsetter Service"
 authors = ["podaac-tva <podaac-tva@jpl.nasa.gov>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"