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Re: sec_to_dt has gone missing! [message #13235]

Fri, 30 October 1998 00:00

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Note: A copy of this article was e-mailed to the original poster.
>
> Nigel Wade (nmw@ion.le.ac.uk) writes:
>
> > In the documentation for IDL 5.1 the function SEC_TO_DT is
mentioned.
> > When I try to use it, it doesn't exist.
> >
> > I've searched the installation directories and can find no mention
of
> > this function anywhere except in the documentation.
> >
> > Does it really exist? Has anyone got it in their distribution?
>
> Mine works:
>
> IDL> print, sec_to_dt(100000)
> % Compiled module: SEC_TO_DT.
> % Compiled module: IDLDT__DEFINE.
> % Compiled module: DT_ADD.
> % Compiled module: JUL_TO_DT.
> % Compiled module: CALDAT.
> % Compiled module: VAR_TO_DT.
> % Compiled module: JULDAY.
> { -4713 1 2 15 46 40.0000 2.1574074 0}
>
> IDL> print, !version
> { x86 Win32 Windows 5.1.1 Jul 20 1998}

This is significant ^^^^^

>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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I guess someone forgot to include it in 5.1.

I've just downloaded 5.1.1 and it is in there.

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		Re: sec_to_dt has gone missing! By: Nigel Wade on Fri, 30 October 1998 00:00
		Re: sec_to_dt has gone missing! By: Kevin Ivory on Fri, 30 October 1998 00:00
		Re: sec_to_dt has gone missing! By: David Foster on Thu, 29 October 1998 00:00
		Re: sec_to_dt has gone missing! By: davidf on Thu, 29 October 1998 00:00

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