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| 4 | ;+ |
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| 5 | ; NAME: date2string |
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| 6 | ; |
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| 7 | ; PURPOSE: create a nice and readable format to print a date |
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| 8 | ; |
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| 9 | ; CATEGORY: calendar/string |
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| 10 | ; |
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| 11 | ; CALLING SEQUENCE: nice_date = date2string(yyyymmdd) |
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| 12 | ; |
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| 13 | ; INPUTS: yyyymmdd the date in the format |
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| 14 | ; yearyearyearyearmonthmonthdayday |
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| 15 | ; |
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| 16 | ; KEYWORD PARAMETERS:those of string fonction to specify the |
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| 17 | ; format of the month (the C format) |
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| 18 | ; |
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| 19 | ; OUTPUTS: a string containing the date in a easy readable format |
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| 20 | ; |
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| 21 | ; COMMON BLOCKS:none |
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| 22 | ; |
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| 23 | ; SIDE EFFECTS:? |
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| 24 | ; |
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| 25 | ; RESTRICTIONS:? |
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| 26 | ; |
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| 27 | ; EXAMPLE: |
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| 28 | ; |
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| 29 | ; IDL> print, date2string(19900123) |
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| 30 | ; Jan 23, 1990 |
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| 31 | ; IDL> print, date2string(19900123, format = '(C(CMOA))') |
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| 32 | ; JAN 23, 1990 |
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| 33 | ; |
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| 34 | ; MODIFICATION HISTORY:Sebastien Masson (smasson@lodyc.jussieu.fr) |
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| 35 | ; Creation ??? |
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| 36 | ; update/review June 2005 Sebastien Masson. |
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| 37 | ;- |
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| 38 | ;------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| 40 | ;------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| 41 | FUNCTION date2string, yyyymmdd, _EXTRA = ex |
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| 42 | ; |
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| 43 | sday = strtrim(long(yyyymmdd) MOD 100, 1) |
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| 44 | smonth = strtrim((long(yyyymmdd)/100) MOD 100, 2) |
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| 45 | syear = strtrim(long(yyyymmdd)/10000, 2) |
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| 46 | res = string(format = '(C(CMoa))', 31*(fix(smonth)-1), _EXTRA = ex) $ |
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| 47 | + ' ' + sday + ', ' + syear |
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| 48 | return, res |
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| 49 | end |
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