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Roland, >Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:02:40 -0600 >From: Roland Schweitzer <rhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Organization: Climate Diagnostics Center >To: visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Question about units package... >Keywords: 200012142008.eBEK8ko15136 The above message contained the following: > Below is a snippet of of Perl code that uses UDUNITS to translate a > date as it is stored in our netCDF files to something a human can > read. > > Digging around in the various examples and docs, I have not been able > to figure out how to do the equivalent using the Java units package. > Can somebody please provide me with a pointer a specific example or > tutorial that covers this? Regretably, the VisAD units subsystem does not yet contain an equivalent of the "valtocal" function. At the moment, the best advice I can give is to use the standard Java date and time-handling classes to do what you want (e.g. the "Data" and "Calendar" classes in the "java.util" package). Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
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