Date
 

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Overview

Date class is for an epoch of time, which is the forth dimension in spatial data.  Two handy class function of an date object are "jd" and "dow", which are used to calculate a Julian Date and the day-of-week.

 

Member data

Name data type Meaning
year int year number
month int month number
day int day number
time double time

 

Operator

no operator provided.

 

Construction function

{Date} ret  =  DATE([{int} argm1, {int} argm2, {int} argm3, {double} argm4])

argm1 = year number    (default = 1960)

argm2 = month number   (default = 12)

argm3 = day number     (default = 9)

argm4 = time           (default = 0.000)

Example:

->epoch_1 = Date(2001,12,15,deg(13.302516))

an epoch at 13 hr 30 min 25.16 sec on Dec 15, 2001

 

Lfunction

object.YEAR()   =  {int} left-value

object.MONTH()  =  {int} left-value

object.DAY()    =  {int} left-value

object.TIME()   =  {double} left-value

Example:

->S.time() = deg(1.301256)

 

Class function

 DAY  DOW INIT JD MONTH
 TIME  YEAR      

 


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