mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.days_to_datetime

mpas_analysis.shared.timekeeping.utility.days_to_datetime(days, calendar='gregorian', referenceDate='0001-01-01')

Covert days to datetime.datetime objects given a reference date and an MPAS calendar (either ‘gregorian’ or ‘gregorian_noleap’).

Parameters:

days : float or array-like of floats

The number of days since the reference date.

calendar : {‘gregorian’, ‘gregorian_noleap’}, optional

A calendar to be used to convert days to a datetime.datetime object.

referenceDate : str, optional

A reference date of the form:

0001-01-01
0001-01-01 00:00:00

Returns:

datetime : datetime.datetime (or array-like of datetimes)

The days since referenceDate on the given calendar.

Raises:

ValueError

If an invalid days, referenceDate or calendar is supplied.