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Re: Posix Time Functions [message #17764 is a reply to message #17749]

Thu, 11 November 1999 00:00

Liam Gumley
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Registered: November 1994

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Eric Kihn wrote:
> I posted this a while a go but didn't hear anything so I thought I'd
> take one more shot. Does anyone know of / have any POSIX time functions
> for IDL? That is a function which takes seconds since Jan, 1 1970 and
> returns a nice date structure (year, month, day,etc..). Such beasties
> are plentiful in Java, C etc so I figure one should be in IDL also.

How about this:
IDL> julian = systime(/julian)
IDL> caldat, julian, month, day, year, hour, minute, second
IDL> print, julian, month, day, year, hour, minute, second
2451493.9 11 11 1999
8 35 19.999981

Note that my Unix host is set to US Central Standard Time.

Cheers,
Liam.

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Liam E. Gumley
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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