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Re: Time convertion [message #24127 is a reply to message #24126]

Wed, 14 March 2001 10:17

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

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Alex Schuster wrote:
> I have to convert some date formats, and I wonder why IDL does not give
> more support here. A common date/time format is the seconds since 1970,
> and the systime() funtion can return the current date in this format.
> Yippie! But why is there no function to convert this from/to standard
> ASCII date strings, or from/to Julian date?
>
> I found such a thing in the Astro library, st2date, input is the
> seconds-since-1970, output is year, month, day etc., and even day and
> month in ASCII notation if one likes. Great. But I did not find
> something yet to convert to seconds-since-1970. I could write it myself,
> but I guess this already had be done some dozen times. Some big routine
> with many, many keywords to convert between all those formats would be
> nice :)

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/s1r/idl/s1rlib/time/time.html

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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		Re: Time convertion By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 14 March 2001 10:57
		Re: Time convertion By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 14 March 2001 10:50
		Re: Time convertion By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 14 March 2001 10:17
		Re: Time convertion By: davidf on Wed, 14 March 2001 09:44
		Re: Time convertion By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 14 March 2001 09:09
		Re: Time convertion By: Alex Schuster on Tue, 20 March 2001 06:03
		Re: Time convertion By: R.Bauer on Mon, 19 March 2001 13:12
		Re: Time convertion By: tam on Wed, 14 March 2001 11:52
		Re: Time convertion By: Wayne Landsman on Wed, 14 March 2001 11:30
		Re: Time convertion By: Alex Schuster on Tue, 20 March 2001 06:04

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