On Oct 3, 6:35 am, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > >>>>> "skorpi...@gmail.com" <skorpi...@gmail.com> (sc) wrote: > >sc> Hi all, > >sc> I have some calendar data in three arrays corresponding to yr, month, > >sc> day that I would like to convert to day since data and be consistent > >sc> with changes in leap year. I've included a sample of the data > >sc> structures below. Any suggestions??? Thanks in advance > >sc> yr mnth day daySince > >sc> 1970 1 1 1 > >sc> 1970 1 15 15 > >sc> 1970 1 28 28 > >sc> 1970 2 1 > >sc> 32 > >sc> 1970 2 27 59 > >sc> 1970 3 1 > >sc> 1970 3 4 > >sc> 1970 3 29 > >sc> ... ... ... > >sc> 2008 1 1 > >sc> 2008 1 8 > >sc> 2008 1 25 > >sc> 2008 2 1 > > Days since what? It appears here to be since 1969-12-31, or since > 1970-1-1 but then starting with 1 instead of 0. > And your 59 is wrong if the others are deemed to be correct. > > Depending on what you want you have to add 1 to the following solution > > import datetime > startdate = datetime.date(1970, 1, 1) > enddate = datetime.date(1970,3,1) > timediff = enddate - startdate > print timediff.days > > result: 59 > -- > Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> > WWW:http://pietvanoostrum.com/ > PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4]
Thanks ... This module does the trick nicely -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
