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Science Dates & Times

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Date & time conversions used in the sciences. The assumption is that datetimes are timezone-naive, as this is required in Numpy et al for numpy.datetime64.

Install

python -m pip install sciencedates

Usage

Datetime => Year, DayOfYear

import sciencedates as sd

T = '2013-07-02T12'
yeardoy, utsec = sd.datetime2yd(T)

Results in year,DayOfYear; UTC fraction of day [seconds]

(2013102, 72000.0)

Julia

Julia examples are provided

Matlab / GNU Octave

Matlab / GNU Octave examples are provided

Fortran

Fortran examples are provided. For Python-like modern Fortran datetime, see Datetime-Fortran.