[ncl-talk] Problem with "cd_calendar"

[Mary Haley]

Yes, by all means feel free to send it along, and we will add it to the
next release.

Thanks,

--Mary


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Alan Brammer <abrammer at albany.edu> wrote:

>
> Mary,
>
>  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?
>
> 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.
>
> Alan.
>
>
>
>
> On 11 Nov 2015, at 11:01, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
> You need to use cd_inv_calendar:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/cd_inv_calendar.shtml
>
> Some of the examples on the above page should help you.
>
> 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.
>
> For example:
>
>   month = str_get_field(time,1,"/")
>   day   = str_get_field(time,2,"/")
>   year  = str_get_field(time,3,"/ ")  ; note the use of both '/' and ' '
> as delimiters
>
> --Mary
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Amadou Coulibaly <mpapin24 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear NCL users,
>>
>> 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 10/05/2014 06:00:00, mm/dd/yyyy hh:MM:ss. I want to use it in the
>> format time at units = "minuts since 2014-10-05 06:00:00" with dates =
>> cd_calendar(Time, 0) as specifying in my script (readcsv.ncl). Please,
>> find attached a sample of my data and script.
>>
>>
>> How to solve this issue?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> --
>> * COULIBALY   AMADOU   *
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>>
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>>
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>>
>> "*The time is always right to do right": Nelson Mandela*
>>
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>> what we think of it; the tree is the real thing" : Abraham Lincoln*
>>
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>>
>>
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