Re: Re: list of dates
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- Subject: [mg88438] Re: [mg88391] Re: list of dates
- From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 06:14:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Roger Nye wrote:
>Thanks for your suggestions.
>
>A key aspect of the problem is that the dates are a list, so I want to be
>able to operate on them as a list.
>The approximation of leap years does not concern me, although the year has
>to be correct (i.e. 1st Jan of year xx must be xx.0, not xx-1.997).
>
>Adapting your suggestions and after much struggle (I am new to Mathematica),
>I came up with this
>("date" is the list of dates input, "t" is the list of values output):
>
>n = Length[date];
>year = Transpose[Map[DateList, date]][[1]];
>days = Table[DateDifference[{year[[i]]}, date[[i]]], {i, 1, n}];
>t = year - 1900 + days / 365.24;
>
>which does what I wanted (thanks).
>It is however very slow. It takes a couple of minutes for 15,000 dates.
>All the other software I have used for a similar calculation (Excel, Stata)
>does it in a split second.
>
>Is there a much more efficient method?
>
>
Yes, DateDifference is slow. Just use one of the methods based on
AbsoluteTime.
Carl Woll
Wolfram Research
>Many thanks
>Roger
>
>
>"Roger Nye" <roger.nye at actuary.ch> wrote in message
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>
>>Hi,
>>I have a list of dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD and I want to convert them
>>to a decimal value, so 1963-01-01 goes to 63.0 and 1985-07-01 goes roughly
>>to 85.5.
>>
>>Any suggestions on the best way to do this?
>>
>>Many thanks
>>Roger
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- From: "Roger Nye" <roger.nye@actuary.ch>
- Re: list of dates