mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.days_to_datetime¶

mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.days_to_datetime(days, calendar='gregorian', referenceDate='0001-01-01')[source]¶

Covert days to datetime.datetime objects given a reference date and an MPAS calendar (either ‘gregorian’ or ‘gregorian_noleap’).

Parameters

daysfloat or array-like of floats

The number of days since the reference date.

calendar{‘gregorian’, ‘gregorian_noleap’}, optional

A calendar to be used to convert days to a datetime.datetime object.

referenceDatestr, optional

A reference date of the form:

0001-01-01
0001-01-01 00:00:00

Returns

datetimedatetime.datetime (or array-like of datetimes): The days since referenceDate on the given calendar.

Raises

ValueError: If an invalid days, referenceDate or calendar is supplied.