Re: printing the weeks day names

Please look at the date functions:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/day_of_week.shtml

On 1/20/11 4:06 PM, ahmed lasheen wrote:
> thanks
> how can i map the integers (which represent the number of the days in
> month which may be 29 or 30 or 31 day) to the seven days .how can i
> know which number of day is saturday for example, have i to use external
> shell command or there is some methode in ncl to do it.
> u
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Dave Allured <dave.allured@noaa.gov
> <mailto:dave.allured@noaa.gov>> wrote:
>
> NCL has many useful date functions. Day of week is one of them.
> There is a category page for date and calendar functions:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/date.shtml
>
> You should be able to get the integer day of week, then use that to
> subscript your array "days_abbr".
>
> --Dave
>
> On 1/20/2011 3:08 PM, ahmed lasheen wrote:
> > Hello
> > is there is a way to print the name of day week(saturday ,sunday
> > ,...) instead of the number .
> > the following code print the date in the formate00Z 01 Jan 2011 , i
> > wish i could print it as
> > 00Z Sat 01 Jan 2011.,
> > ------
> > month_abbr =
> > (/"","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep", \
> > "Oct","Nov","Dec"/)
> > days_abbr = (/"sat","sun","mon","tue","wed","thur","fir"/)
> >
> > time = (/00, 06, 12, 18, 24/)
> > time@units = "hours since 2012-1-1 00:00:0.0"
> >
> > utc_date = ut_calendar(time, 0)
> > year = floattointeger(utc_date(:,0))
> > month = floattointeger(utc_date(:,1))
> > day = floattointeger(utc_date(:,2))
> > hour = floattointeger(utc_date(:,3))
> > minute = floattointeger(utc_date(:,4))
> > second = utc_date(:,5)
> >
> > my_date =sprinti("%0.2iZ ",hour)+sprinti("%0.2i
> > ",day)+month_abbr(month)+sprinti(" %0.4i ",year)
> > print(my_date)
> >
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > ===============
> > Ahmed Lasheen
> > Egyptian Meteorological Authority(EMA)
> > Cairo,Egypt
> > ===============
> >
> >
> >
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