[ncl-talk] Problem with "cd_calendar"

[Alan Brammer]

relatively simple to use. 

Using the original email as an example:

str_time = "10/05/2014 06:00:00"
time_format = "%N/%D/%Y %H:%M:%S”   ;;; same codes as cd_string 
time_format at units = "minutes since 2014-10-05 06:00:00”

time = cd_inv_string(str_time, time_format)







> On 11 Nov 2015, at 15:35, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
> Yes, by all means feel free to send it along, and we will add it to the next release.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Mary
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Alan Brammer <abrammer at albany.edu <mailto:abrammer at albany.edu>> wrote:
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> Mary, 
> 
>  A while back I adapted cd_string to work in reverse cd_inv_string.  Pass it a string and the string format and it converts to a cd time.   Would you be interested in including this functionality in future releases?  
> 
> I use the function quite a bit and it helps save a ton of time and  lines parsing out the strings and then converting etc. 
> 
> Alan.   
> 
> 
> 
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>> On 11 Nov 2015, at 11:01, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu <mailto:haley at ucar.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> You need to use cd_inv_calendar:
>> 
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/cd_inv_calendar.shtml <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/cd_inv_calendar.shtml>
>> 
>> Some of the examples on the above page should help you.
>> 
>> To get the required year, month, day, hour, minutes, and seconds arrays, you will need to parse the "time" array in the same fashion that you parsed the CSV file.
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>>   month = str_get_field(time,1,"/")
>>   day   = str_get_field(time,2,"/")
>>   year  = str_get_field(time,3,"/ ")  ; note the use of both '/' and ' ' as delimiters
>> 
>> --Mary
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Amadou Coulibaly <mpapin24 at gmail.com <mailto:mpapin24 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Dear NCL users,
>> 
>> I am trying to use cd_calendar for my dataset to be able to plot daily timeseries. But I have a problem converting my Timstamp, which is in the format 10/05/2014 06:00:00, mm/dd/yyyy hh:MM:ss. I want to use it in the format time at units = "minuts since 2014-10-05 06:00:00" with dates = cd_calendar(Time, 0) as specifying in my script (readcsv.ncl). Please, find attached a sample of my data and script.
>> 
>> 
>> How to solve this issue?
>> 
>> Best regards 
>> 
>> -- 
>>  COULIBALY   AMADOU   
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