mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.string_to_relative_delta¶

mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.string_to_relative_delta(dateString, calendar='gregorian')[source]¶

Given a date string and a calendar, returns an instance of MpasRelativeDelta

Parameters

dateStringstr

A date and time 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

Returns

Raises