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Re: dates transformation [message #39899 is a reply to message #39898]

Tue, 15 June 2004 03:12

tam
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"Thomas Ohde" <thomas.ohde@io-warnemuende.de> wrote in message news:<40ce8f97$1@news.uni-rostock.de>...
> Hi,
>
> I have given dates like 38141.497920 and I can transform this with Excel
> into: 03.06.2004 11:57. I found in the help that this is the 1900 date
> format.
>
> How can I transform these dates in both direction with IDL? Is there any
> function in IDL?
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Thomas

Take a look at the JULDATE, JDCNV and DAYCNV routines in the idlastro library
at idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov. These do pretty much what you want except
that they have a different zero point. You'll have to add or subtract
a constant offset to get 0 to be 1900.000.

Regards,
Tom McGlynn

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