<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mary, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> 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? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Nov 2015, at 11:01, Mary Haley <<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" class="">haley@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You need to use cd_inv_calendar:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/cd_inv_calendar.shtml" class="">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/cd_inv_calendar.shtml</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Some of the examples on the above page should help you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For example:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> month = str_get_field(time,1,"/")</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> day = str_get_field(time,2,"/")</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> year = str_get_field(time,3,"/ ") ; note the use of both '/' and ' ' as delimiters</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">--Mary</font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Amadou Coulibaly <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mpapin24@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">mpapin24@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">Dear NCL users,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">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 <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">10/05/2014 06:00:00</span>, mm/dd/yyyy hh:MM:ss. I want to use it in the format <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">time@units = "minuts since 2014-10-05 06:00:00"</span> </span>with <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">dates = cd_calendar(Time, 0)<span style="" class=""> as specifying in my script (readcsv.ncl). Please, find attached a sample of my data and script.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class=""><span style="" class="">How to solve this issue?<br class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class=""><span style="" class="">Best regards</span> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)" class=""><span class=""></span></span><br clear="all" class=""></div><br class="">-- <br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><b style="font-size:small;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><font color="#000066" class=""> </font><font color="#000066" class="">COULIBALY </font><font color="#000066" class="">AMADOU </font></b><br class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" 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