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20041019: Bug in ut_calendar?
- Subject: 20041019: Bug in ut_calendar?
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:26:35 -0600
Mary,
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:21:18 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Mary Haley <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR
>To: address@hidden (Steve Emmerson)
>Subject: Re: 20041015: Bug in ut_calendar?
The above message contained the following:
...
> Perhaps I am. I got the same above results too (which were actually
> reported to me by another user), and was thinking that for time=1,
> this would be one month later, ie:
>
> units = 'months since 1870-1-1'
> time = 1
> year = 1870
> month = 2
> day = 0
> hour = 0
> second= 0
>
> However, I guess this all depends on what a "month" is, and I'm
> guessing from this program, it's a fixed 30 days?
Not exactly. 30 days is 2592000 seconds; a "month" is defined as 1/12
of a tropical year or 2629743.831225 seconds.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson