Calendar/
date2string.pro
create a nice and readable format to print a date
date2string
Calendar, String
result = date2string(yyyymmdd, _EXTRA=_EXTRA)
Return value
a string containing the date in a easy readable format with the
same number of elements than yyyymmdd.
Parameters
yyyymmdd
in
required
the date in the format yyyymmdd. Can be scalar or array
Keywords
_EXTRA
used to pass your keywords to other procedures, for example
keyword FORMAT of string function (see example bellow)
Examples
IDL> print, date2string(19900123)
Jan 23, 1990
IDL> print, date2string(19900123, format = '(C(CMOA))')
JAN 23, 1990
Version history
Version
$Id: date2string.pro 157 2006-08-21 09:01:50Z navarro $
History
Sebastien Masson (smasson@lodyc.jussieu.fr)
Creation ???
update/review June 2005 Sebastien Masson.
Produced by IDLdoc 2.0 on Wed Sep 13 16:32:05 2006.
