Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your suggestions. I'll try number (1) and see how it goes.
If, however, I still need number (2) and have the time to do a decent
work I let you know. Indeed it would be nice to have the
numpy.datetime64 with its arithmetic capabilities supported in
pytables.
Thanks,
-Fernan
Hello Fernando,
I personally have always found the 64-bit time stamps to be much more
useful (and much less ambiguous) than Python datetime objects.
However, if against my better judgement, you decide to store datetimes, you
effectively have three options (in preferred order):
1. Create a nu
Hi Ben,
Thanks for the reply. Actually that's the way my measurements come (a
single number representing seconds since a reference epoch). What I
need is to fractionate this number into the respective time elements
(year, month, day, hour, secs, micro secs) and operate with them. So I
would apprec
Hi Fernando
I don't know about datetime, per se, but you can also convert your
times/dates into time since Unix epoch and store that as a single
64-bit integer.
Cheers, Ben
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