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[ferret_users] time axis and precision



Hi Ferreters

I'm trying to read an ascii file (tyty.dat) containing temperature and time, and to define a time axis from the variable read.

tyty.dat :

 16.4306   10/08/2009 05:22:59
 16.5106   10/08/2009 05:23:59
 16.4976   10/08/2009 05:24:59
 16.3889   10/08/2009 05:25:59
 16.3681   10/08/2009 05:26:59
...

! Read file
File /Var="TEMP,julday,hhmmss" /Form=Delim /Delim="\b" /Type="NU,EURODATE,TI" tyty.dat

! Define a time axis from variables julday and hhmmss
Let day_frac  = hhmmss/24
Let tstep     = julday + day_frac
Define Axis /T /T0=01-JAN-1900 /Unit=days t_axis_02 = tstep

 *** NOTE: Axis has repeated values -- micro-adjusting ...

List TEMP[GT=t_axis_02@ASN]

 10-AUG-2009 05:20:39 / 1:  16.43
 10-AUG-2009 05:26:15 / 2:  16.51
 10-AUG-2009 05:26:15 / 3:  16.50
 10-AUG-2009 05:26:15 / 4:  16.39
 10-AUG-2009 05:26:16 / 5:  16.37
...

The problem is that the precision is not enough to calculate the julian day properly.

Is there a trick to do this right ?

Thank you for your suggestions.

Bruno Levier




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