time as float since Jan 1, 0001?
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Feb 23 08:41:24 EST 2013
On 23/02/2013 13:29, Roy Smith wrote:
> I'm working with matplotlib.plot_date(), which represents time as
> "floats starting at January 1st, year 0001". Is there any
> straight-forward way to get that out of a datetime?
>
> datetime.toordinal() gives me the number of days since that epoch, but
> as an integer. I figured it wouldn't be too hard to just do:
>
> t.toordinal() + t.time().total_seconds()
>
> except it turns out that only timedelta supports total_seconds(); time
> doesn't!
>
> I suppose I could do:
>
> t.toordinal() + t.hour / 24.0 \
> + t.minute / 1440.0 \
> + t.second / 86400.0
>
> but that's really ugly. Is there no cleaner way to do this conversion?
>
IIRC you needn't bother, matplotlib will do all the conversions for you.
In the highly likely case that I'm wrong this should help
http://matplotlib.org/api/dates_api.html#module-matplotlib.dates
--
Cheers.
Mark Lawrence
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