clouddrift.adapters.gdp.decode_date

clouddrift.adapters.gdp.decode_date(t)

The date format is specified as ‘seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00’ but the missing values are stored as -1e+34 which is not supported by the default parsing mechanism in xarray.

This function returns replaced the missing value by NaN and returns a datetime instance.

Parameters

tarray

Array of time values

Returns

outdatetime

Datetime instance with the missing value replaced by NaN