[ncl-talk] unable to convert date and time

[Geeta Geeta]

Hi 
in my code, I have extracted the dats which looks like 20090402 (2nd April2009).I have to convert it to the format 02apr2009. 

I am using cd_convert to write the date and time in the required format. 

Following is the lines from the code.  I have added units  to this variable YYMMDD

YYMMDD           =   stringtointeger(Split_name(1))            ; string variable

                    print(YYMMDD)
   YYMMDD at units     = "days since 0000-01-01 00:00:0.0"
;                      printVarSummary(YYMMDD)

    stime            =  cd_convert(YYMMDD,"%c%y")
;                       print(stime)


I get error like this
CDMS error: Error on relative units conversion: invalid units = %c%y

kindly suggest


Geeta.