mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.string_to_days_since_date¶
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mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.string_to_days_since_date(dateString, calendar='gregorian', referenceDate='0001-01-01')[source]¶ Given a date string or an array-like of date strings, a reference date string, and a calendar, returns the number of days (as a float or numpy.array of floats) since the reference date
- Parameters
- dateStringsstr or array-like of str
A date and time (or array of date/times) in one of the following formats:
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss YYYY-MM-DD hh.mm.ss YYYY-MM-DD SSSSS DDD hh:mm:ss DDD hh.mm.ss DDD SSSSS hh.mm.ss hh:mm:ss YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM SSSSS
Note: either underscores or spaces can be used to separate the date from the time portion of the string.
- calendar: {‘gregorian’, ‘gregorian_noleap’}, optional
The name of one of the calendars supported by MPAS cores
- referenceDatestr, optional
A reference date of the form:
0001-01-01 0001-01-01 00:00:00
- Returns
- daysfloat or numpy.array of floats
The number of days since
referenceDatefor each date indateString
- Raises
- ValueError
If an invalid
dateStringorcalendaris supplied.