Coverting date format was: Problems with Ut_string

From: ugo merlini <ugomerlini_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon Oct 03 2011 - 13:00:46 MDT

Hi

I would like to convert the date format from the standard one to

 date -d "20111002 03 +2 hour" +"%A, %d/%m/%Y ore %H"

I write a little script

can someone help to go to the right way?

is better to use internal NCL function instead of Unix shell command?

Regards

Ugo

From: carl@cicsnc.org
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:08:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Problems with Ut_string
To: ugomerlini@hotmail.com
CC: ncl-talk@ucar.edu

I believe you are missing some quotes on line 304. Try this:
        date2 = systemfunc("date -d " + date + " +'%A %H'")

Previously, the date in parentheses was calling the unix command date, not your variable date. Hope this helps!
    Carl
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM, ugo merlini <ugomerlini@hotmail.com> wrote:

hi,

I'm trying to make a custom date format so I extract gfs timestamp and put it in a format readable from linux shel comand (lines 300 and 301) and I obtain the right format YYYYMMDD HH (line 304) as bah command line want

so i made (line 304)

date2 = systemfunc("date -d '(date)' +'%A %H'")

but the result is always Sunday 00

Why?

Regards

Ugo

                                               

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