CDF_PARSE_EPOCH16
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The CDF_PARSE_EPOCH16 function parses a properly-formatted input string into 
a double-complex value properly formatted for use as a CDF_EPOCH16 variable.

Note: CDF_EPOCH16 variables may be unparsed into a variety of formats using 
the CDF_ENCODE_EPOCH16 or CDF_EPOCH16 functions.

Example

test_string = '04-Dec-2005 20:19:18.176.214.648.000'

test_epoch = CDF_PARSE_EPOCH16(test_string)

CDF_EPOCH16, test_epoch, year, month, day, hour, min, sec, $

   milli, micro, nano, pico, /BREAKDOWN_EPOCH

HELP, test_string, test_epoch

PRINT, CDF_ENCODE_EPOCH16(test_epoch)

PRINT, year, month, day, hour, min, sec, milli, micro, nano, pico

 

IDL Prints:

TEST_STRING STRING = '04-Dec-2005 20:19:18.176.214.648.000'

TEST_EPOCH DCOMPLEX = ( 6.3300947e+10, 1.7621465e+11)

 

04-Dec-2005 20:19:18.176.214.648.000

2005  12  4  20  19  18  176  214  648  0

Syntax

Result = CDF_PARSE_EPOCH16(Epoch_string)

Note: Epoch string field can be a single string or an array of strings. Based 
      on the input, the output can be a single epoch value or an array of 
      epoch values, in DCOMPLEX.

Return Value

Returns the double-precision complex value of the input string properly 
formatted for use as a CDF_EPOCH16 variable.

Arguments

Epoch_string

A formatted string that will be parsed into a double precision complex value 
suitable to be used as a CDF_EPOCH16 value. The format of the date string is
one of the following styles:

DD-Mon-YYYY hh:mm:ss.ccc.uuu.nnn.ppp
YYYYmmdd.ttttttttttttttt
YYYYmmddhhmnss
YYYY-mm-ddThh:mn:ss.ccc.uuc.nnn.pppZ
YYYY-mm-ddThh:mn:ss.cccuucnnnppp

where:

Date Element

Represents

DD
the day of the month (1-31)

Mon
the abbreviated month name: (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, 
Nov, or Dec)

YYYY
the year (A.D.)

mm
the month (1-12)

hh
the hour (0-23)

mn
the minute (0-59)

ss
the second (0-59)

ccc
the millisecond (0-999)

uuu
the microsecond (0-999)

nnn
the nanosecond (0-999)

ppp
the picosecond (0-999)

ttttttttttttt
the subday

Keywords

None

Version History

6.3

Introduced

See Also

CDF_ENCODE_EPOCH16, CDF_EPOCH16

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