<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Yes, by all means feel free to send it along, and we will add it to the next release.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Alan Brammer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abrammer@albany.edu" target="_blank">abrammer@albany.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><br></div><div>Mary, </div><div><br></div><div> 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><br></div><div>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><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Alan. </div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 11 Nov 2015, at 11:01, Mary Haley <<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><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></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/cd_inv_calendar.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/cd_inv_calendar.shtml</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></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></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></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For example:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> month = str_get_field(time,1,"/")</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> day = str_get_field(time,2,"/")</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> 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"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--Mary</font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Amadou Coulibaly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpapin24@gmail.com" target="_blank">mpapin24@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">Dear NCL users,<br><br></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)">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)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">time@units = "minuts since 2014-10-05 06:00:00"</span> </span>with <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">dates = cd_calendar(Time, 0)<span> as specifying in my script (readcsv.ncl). 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