<div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>I am not sure of a simple way to do it. You could create more than one time_var for each time zone, and then code that in. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I am not sure if this would help.</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>new_time_units = "hours since 1800-01-01 00:00"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>new_time_units = new_time_units</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>new_time_array = cd_inv_calendar( year(it_val),<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>month(it_val), day(it_val), hour(it_val), minute(it_val), 0, new_time_units,0)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:23px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>it_val = it_val +it_inc</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>print("new_time_array = " + new_time_array)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>format = "%H%M IST %d %c %Y"</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>new_time_array = new_time_array + 2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(230,230,0)">time_var</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">=cd_string(new_time_array,format)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>print("</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(230,230,0)">time_var</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> = " + </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(230,230,0)">time_var</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">)</span></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 6:24 PM Ipsita Putatunda <<a href="mailto:ipsita.putatunda@gmail.com">ipsita.putatunda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br></div>I am trying to convert my data from UTC to Local time. Is there any way to do it in NCL?<br>In a older post in ncltalk I have found a suggestion where, with a known Timezone one can convert UTC to Local time, but what if my region spans along more than one time zones?<br></div>Can it not be done with a known lat/lon?<br></div>Any suggestions in this issue will be appreciated.<br><br></div>Thanks in advance,<br></div>Ipsita<br><div><div><br></div></div></div>
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