<div dir="ltr">Although this is likely a minor detail in the example you posted, it appears you want things in UTC (hence the Z at the end of the timestamp). Joe's response only works if your computer defaults to UTC as its time zone. Otherwise, date -u +....... will be necessary to ensure the command works regardless of the local time setting.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kyle</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">----------------------------------------<div>Kyle S. Griffin</div><div>Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences</div><div>University of Wisconsin - Madison</div><div>Room 1421</div><div>1225 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:ksgriffin2@wisc.edu" target="_blank">ksgriffin2@wisc.edu</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Joseph Zambon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbzambon@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">jbzambon@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Mark,</div><div><br></div><div>For your application, the date string for the UNIX command would be...</div><div><br></div><div>date +'%Y-%m-%d-T%H:%M:%S'</div><div><br></div><div>as in...</div><div>jbzambon@:~$ date +'%Y-%m-%d-T%H:%M:%S'<br>2014-12-01-T11:56:02</div><div><br></div><div>As you have been doing, use systemfunc along with that UNIX function to get the desired output...</div><div><br></div><div>ncl 6> creation_date =systemfunc("date +'%Y-%m-%d-T%H:%M:%S'") <br>ncl 7> print(creation_date) <br><br><br>Variable: creation_date<br>Type: string<br>Total Size: 8 bytes<br> 1 values<br>Number of Dimensions: 1<br>Dimensions and sizes:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>[1]<br>Coordinates: <br>(0)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2014-12-01-T11:57:35</div><div><br></div><div>See the man date page for more info on formatting from the date function.</div><div><a href="http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?date" target="_blank">http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?date</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Joe</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Mark Chan <<a href="mailto:cym263@yahoo.com" target="_blank">cym263@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-size:15px;font-family:sans-serif"><div dir="ltr">Dear NCL users,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In the below is a way to create the "date". How could I make the date format as: "2014-11-28-T15:50:49Z"?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks a lot,</div><div dir="ltr">Mark</div><div dir="ltr"><br> </div><div>========<br></div><div>fileAtt@creation_date =systemfunc("date") <br></div><div>:creation_date = "Fri Nov 28 15:50:49 CET 2014" ;<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>ncl-talk mailing list<br>List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk" target="_blank">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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