[ncl-talk] manipulate date

[jmason at eos.ubc.ca]

https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/systemfunc.shtml

This works for me

Date = systemfunc("date '+%Y%m%d' --date '5 days'")

Jesse


> Dear ncl-team
>     I'm using the ncl 6.1.2 on imac Darwin 64bit
>     I need to calculate the resulting date in the form YYYYMMDD
> (year,mounth and day)
>     starting from an initial date YYYYMMDD of string type and adding a
> certain number of day
>     For example func("20140928" + 5 day) = "20141003"
>     Has ncl a routine that do this task?
>
>     thanks
> Francesco Trotta
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