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Re: date format [message #72453 is a reply to message #72452]

Thu, 09 September 2010 18:05

ben.bighair
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Registered: April 2007

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On 9/9/10 6:51 PM, mahesh wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any way I can change the date format from '970625' to
> '19970625' in IDL?
> Thanks,
> Mahesh

Hi,

I hesitate to give the easy answer, but what the heck. IDL can do
string math so the following works a treat.

dateString = '970625'
newDateString = '19' + dateString

But if you really need to do date math then you need to split the string
into a 2-digit-year, a month and a day using STRMID. Add the century
(1900) to the 2-digit date. Then you run the while thing JULDAY before
doing math on it.

Cheers,
Ben

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