<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=""><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/cd_inv_string.shtml" class="">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/cd_inv_string.shtml</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wrote the above function a while back to better handle string times. You can download my version (I think it’s the same as the future 6.4.0 version) here:</div><div class="">https://bitbucket.org/a1brammer/ncl_functions/raw/78dea35d95946425e9054cdc9286ae3db88d9585/cd_inv_string.ncl</div><div class="">Save that function, then load at the top of your script from where ever you saved it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You need to convert times to a numeric format, apply the offset, then convert back to a nicely formatted string. </div><div class="">Formats applied below are likely not correct for your version, check the documentation and adjust as necessary. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">e.g. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">time_numeric = cd_inv_string( times(it), “%Y%N%D%H%M”) ;; will return in hours since 1800-01-01 unless specified otherwise</div><div class="">offset = -8 ; hours</div><div class="">time_numeric = time_numeric - offset</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">pnlres@txstring = cd_string( time_numeric, “%Y%N%D%H%M” )</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">HTH,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Alan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Sep 2016, at 12:08, Tabish Ansari <tabishumaransari@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Hi<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I'm creating lots of instantaneous panelplots for WRF data with the appropriate time-stamp on each panel. I'm doing this by simply using pnlres@txstring = times(it) where:<br class=""><br class="">times = wrf_user_getvar(a,"times",-1) <br class=""></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">and "it" is the standard increment variable in the loop.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">This is the standard method and works fine but the times are obviously in UTC. I want to print local time (in my case UTC + 8) instead, but I'm not sure how to do this in a clean way as times is a string variable.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Please suggest a nice way to go about this issue.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Thanks<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Tabish<br class=""></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br clear="all" class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="">Tabish U Ansari<br class=""></span></font></div><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="">PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center<br class=""></span></font></div><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="">Lancaster Univeristy<br class=""> <span class="">Bailrigg</span>, <span class="">Lancaster</span>, <br class=""><span class="">LA1 4YW</span>, <span class="">United Kingdom</span></span></font><br class=""></div></div></div>
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