<div>                Thanks dennis and Rick. <br>the code works. <br><br>Geeta.<br><br>            </div>            <div class="yahoo_quoted" style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #ccc;padding-left:1ex;">                        <div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">                                <div>                    On Thursday, 19 March, 2020, 11:28:33 pm IST, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:                </div>                <div><br></div>                <div><br></div>                <div><div id="yiv9588925321"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>No function .... just straight forward programming. You can create a function if you want.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div> month = (/"jan","feb","mar","apr","may","jun" \<br clear="none">          ,"jul","aug","sep","oct","nov","dec"/)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> yyyymmdd = 20090402<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> yyyy    = yyyymmdd/10000<br clear="none"> mmdd = yyyymmdd-(yyyy*10000)<br clear="none"> mm     = mmdd/100<br clear="none"> dd       = mmdd-(mm*100)<br clear="none"> print("yyyy="+yyyy+": mm="+mm+": dd="+dd)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> DATE = sprinti("%0.2i", mm) + month(mm-1) + yyyy<br clear="none"> print(DATE)</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9588925321gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9588925321gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:31 AM Rick Brownrigg via ncl-talk <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9588925321gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think you want cd_string, not cd_convert:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>    <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/cd_string.shtml">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/cd_string.shtml</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>From those docs, I'm not sure it will give days as "2nd", "3rd"..."31st", etc, but it will certain give 2, or 02, etc. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>It looks like cd_convert is used to convert various linear time units, ex, "days from..." to "months from...", etc.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Rick<br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9588925321gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9588925321gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 3:46 AM Geeta Geeta via ncl-talk <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9588925321gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">Hi <br clear="none">in my code, I have extracted the dats which looks like 20090402 (2nd April2009).I have to convert it to the format 02apr2009. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am using cd_convert to write the date and time in the required format. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Following is the lines from the code.  I have added units  to this variable YYMMDD<br clear="none"><br clear="none">YYMMDD           =   stringtointeger(Split_name(1))            ; string variable<br clear="none"><br clear="none">                    print(YYMMDD)<br clear="none">   YYMMDD@units     = "days since 0000-01-01 00:00:0.0"<br clear="none">;                      printVarSummary(YYMMDD)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">    stime            =  cd_convert(YYMMDD,"%c%y")<br clear="none">;                       print(stime)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I get error like this<br clear="none">CDMS error: Error on relative units conversion: invalid units = %c%y<br clear="none"><br clear="none">kindly suggest<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Geeta.<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">ncl-talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br clear="none">List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><div class="yiv9588925321yqt4122487897" id="yiv9588925321yqtfd51742"><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div><div class="yiv9588925321yqt4122487897" id="yiv9588925321yqtfd61965">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">ncl-talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br clear="none">List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br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