datetime-fortran

Date and time manipulation for modern Fortran. The fundamental time step is one millisecond.

Getting started

First, get the code by cloning this repo:

git clone https://github.com/wavebitscientific/datetime-fortran
cd datetime-fortran

or by downloading a release tarball. The latter is recommended if you want to build datetime-fortran with autotools and make.

You can build datetime-fortran with FPM, autotools, CMake, or by simply including the source file “src/datetime_module.f90” in your project. NOTE: Windows additionally requires “src/strptime.cpp” in your project.

FPM

As of version 1.7.0, datetime-fortran can be built using the Fortran Package Manager. Follow the directions on that page to install FPM if you haven’t already.

To build, type:

fpm build

binary artifacts are created in:

Library and module files: build/gfortran_debug/library
test executables: build/gfortran_debug/tests.

To run the tests, type:

fpm test

Autotools

./configure
make check
make install

If you cloned the repo instead of downloading a release tarball, run autoreconf -i first to generate the configure script.

CMake

cmake -B build
cmake --build build

binary artifacts are created in:

Library: build/lib/libdatetime
module: build/include/datetime.mod
test executable: build/bin/datetime_tests

optionally, to install (replace “~/mylibs” with your desired install directory):

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/mylibs
cmake --install build

optionally, to run self-tests:

cd build
ctest -V

Use

Start using datetime-fortran in your code by importing derived types from the module:

use datetime_module, only: datetime, timedelta, clock

See some basic examples here.

API

Derived Types
- datetime
  - getYear
  - getMonth
  - getDay
  - getHour
  - getMinute
  - getSecond
  - getMillisecond
  - isocalendar
  - isoformat
  - isValid
  - now
  - secondsSinceEpoch
  - strftime
  - tm
  - tzOffset
  - utc
  - weekday
  - weekdayLong
  - weekdayShort
  - yearday
- timedelta
  - total_seconds
- clock
  - reset
  - tick
- tm_struct
Overloaded operators
- Arithmetic operators
- Comparison operators
Public procedures

Derived Types

datetime-fortran library provides the following derived types: datetime, timedelta, clock and tm_struct.

datetime

Main date and time object, defined as:

type :: datetime

  !! Main datetime class for date and time representation.

  private

  integer :: year        = 1 !! year [1-HUGE(year)]
  integer :: month       = 1 !! month in year [1-12]
  integer :: day         = 1 !! day in month [1-31]
  integer :: hour        = 0 !! hour in day [0-23]
  integer :: minute      = 0 !! minute in hour [0-59]
  integer :: second      = 0 !! second in minute [0-59]
  integer :: millisecond = 0 !! milliseconds in second [0-999]

  real(kind=real64) :: tz = 0 !! timezone offset from UTC [hours]

  contains

  ! getter functions
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getYear
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getMonth
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getDay
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getHour
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getMinute
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getSecond
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getMillisecond
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getTz

  ! public methods
  procedure,pass(self),public :: isocalendar
  procedure,pass(self),public :: isoformat
  procedure,pass(self),public :: isValid
  procedure,nopass,    public :: now
  procedure,pass(self),public :: secondsSinceEpoch
  procedure,pass(self),public :: strftime
  procedure,pass(self),public :: tm
  procedure,pass(self),public :: tzOffset
  procedure,pass(self),public :: utc
  procedure,pass(self),public :: weekday
  procedure,pass(self),public :: isoweekday
  procedure,pass(self),public :: weekdayLong
  procedure,pass(self),public :: isoweekdayLong
  procedure,pass(self),public :: weekdayShort
  procedure,pass(self),public :: isoweekdayShort
  procedure,pass(self),public :: yearday

  ! private methods
  procedure,pass(self),private :: addMilliseconds
  procedure,pass(self),private :: addSeconds
  procedure,pass(self),private :: addMinutes
  procedure,pass(self),private :: addHours
  procedure,pass(self),private :: addDays

  ! operator overloading procedures
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: datetime_plus_timedelta
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: timedelta_plus_datetime
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: datetime_minus_datetime
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: datetime_minus_timedelta
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: eq
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: neq
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: gt
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: ge
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: lt
  procedure,pass(d0),private :: le

  generic :: operator(+)  => datetime_plus_timedelta,&
                             timedelta_plus_datetime
  generic :: operator(-)  => datetime_minus_datetime,&
                             datetime_minus_timedelta
  generic :: operator(==) => eq
  generic :: operator(/=) => neq
  generic :: operator(>)  => gt
  generic :: operator(>=) => ge
  generic :: operator(<)  => lt
  generic :: operator(<=) => le

endtype datetime

datetime components are initialized by default, so all arguments are optional. Arguments may be provided as positional arguments, in the order of their declaration, or as keyword arguments, in any order. If both positional and keyword arguments are used, no positional arguments may appear after a keyword argument.

Example usage

use datetime_module, only:datetime

type(datetime) :: a

! Initialize as default:
a = datetime() ! 0001-01-01 00:00:00

! Components can be specified by position:
a = datetime(1984, 12, 10) ! 1984-12-10 00:00:00

! Or by keyword:
a = datetime(month=1, day=1, year=1970) ! 1970-01-01 00:00:00

! Or combined:
a = datetime(2013, 2, minute=23, day=5) ! 2013-02-05 00:23:00

! With timezone offset:
a = datetime(2013, 2, minute=23, day=5, tz=-4) ! 2013-02-05 00:23:00 -0400

! Do not use positional after keyword arguments:
a = datetime(year=2013, 2, minute=23, day=5) ! ILLEGAL

Note that the current implementation of datetime does not support daylight saving time (DST) information.

getYear

pure elemental integer function getYear(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the year of a datetime instance.

getMonth

pure elemental integer function getMonth(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the month of a datetime instance.

getDay

pure elemental integer function getDay(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the day of a datetime instance.

getHour

pure elemental integer function getHour(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the hour of a datetime instance.

getMinute

pure elemental integer function getMinute(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the minute of a datetime instance.

getSecond

pure elemental integer function getSecond(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the second of a datetime instance.

getMillisecond

pure elemental integer function getMillisecond(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the millisecond of a datetime instance.

isocalendar

function isocalendar(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self
  integer,dimension(3)       :: isocalendar

Returns an array of 3 integers: year, week number, and week day, as defined by ISO 8601 week date. The ISO calendar is a widely used variant of the Gregorian calendar. The ISO year consists of 52 or 53 full weeks. A week starts on a Monday (1) and ends on a Sunday (7). The first week of an ISO year is the first (Gregorian) calendar week of a year containing a Thursday. This is called week number 1, and the ISO year of that Thursday is the same as its Gregorian year.

datetime%isocalendar() is equivalent to Python’s datetime.datetime.isocalendar().

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime) :: a

a = datetime(2013,1,1)
print *, a % isocalendar() ! Prints: 2013  1  2

isoformat

pure elemental character(len=23) function isoformat(self,sep)
  class(datetime), intent(in)          :: self
  character(len=1),intent(in),optional :: sep

Returns a character string of length 23 that contains date and time in ISO 8601 format.

datetime%isoformat() is equivalent to Python’s datetime.datetime.isoformat(), with the only difference being that datetime%isoformat() returns the milliseconds at the end of the string, where as datetime.datetime.isoformat() returns microseconds.

Arguments

sep is an optional argument that specifies which character of length 1 will separate date and time entries. If ommited, defaults to T.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime) :: a

a = datetime(1984,12,10,13,5,0)

! Without arguments:
print *, a % isoformat() ! Prints 1984-12-10T13:05:00.000

! With a specified separator:
print *, a % isoformat(' ') ! Prints 1984-12-10 13:05:00.000

isValid

pure elemental logical function isValid(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns .true. if all datetime instance components have valid values, and .false. otherwise. Components have valid values if they are within the range indicated in datetime derived type description.

Useful for debugging and validating user input.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime) :: a

a = datetime(1984,12,10,13,5,0)

print *, a % isValid()! .true.

a = datetime(1984,13,10,13,5,0)

print *, a % isValid() ! .false.

now

type(datetime) function now(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the datetime instance representing the current machine time. Does not support timezones.

Return value

self A datetime instance with current machine time.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime) :: a

a = a % now() ! Assigns current machine time to a

secondsSinceEpoch

integer function secondsSinceEpoch(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns an integer number of seconds since the UNIX Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).

Return value

secondsSinceEpoch An integer scalar containing number of seconds since UNIX Epoch.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime) :: a

! Initialize:
a = datetime(2013,1,1)

print *, a%secondsSinceEpoch()

strftime

character(len=maxstrlen) function strftime(self,format)
  class(datetime), intent(in) :: self
  character(len=*),intent(in) :: format

A datetime-bound method that serves as a wrapper around the C routine strftime. datetime%strftime takes only the format string as argument, and returns the character string representation of the time information contained in the datetime instance. Thus, this function takes care of the conversion to tm_struct and calling the raw C strftime. Because Fortran does not allow assumed-length character strings as the type of the function result, a fixed length of MAXSTRLEN is used. MAXSTRLEN is currently set to 99. It is assumed that the desired time string is shorter than this value. Any resulting string shorter than MAXSTRLEN is padded with spaces, so it is best to trim the result using the TRIM intrinsic function (see the usage example below). This datetime-bound method is available since version 0.3.0.

Arguments

format A character string describing the desired format of date and time. Same as the format for the raw C strftime.

Return value

A character(len=maxstrlen) representation of datetime using format.

Example usage

use datetime_module

type(datetime)  :: a

a = a % now()
print *, a % isoformat()

print *, trim(a % strftime("%Y %B %d"))

tm

pure elemental type(tm_struct) function tm(self)
  CLASS(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns a tm_struct instance that matches the time and date information in the caller datetime instance.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime)  :: a
type(tm_struct) :: tm

! Initialize:
a = datetime(2013,1,1)

! Get tm_struct from datetime:
tm = a % tm()

tzOffset

pure elemental character(len=5) function tzOffset(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Given a datetime instance, returns a character string with timezone offset in hours from UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), in format +hhmm or -hhmm, depending on the sign, where hh are hours and mm are minutes.

Arguments

None.

Return value

tzOffset A character(len=5) in the form +hhmm or -hhmm, depending on the sign.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime)  :: a
type(tm_struct) :: tm

! Initialize a datetime instance with timezone offset of -4.75 hours:
a = datetime(2013,1,1,tz=-4.75)

! Write tzOffset on screen:
print *, a % tzOffset ! -0445 (offset of 4 hours and 45 minutes)

utc

pure elemental type(datetime) function utc(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the datetime instance at Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Return value

utc A datetime instance with at UTC (tz = 0).

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime)  :: a
type(tm_struct) :: tm

! Initialize a datetime instance with timezone offset of -4.75 hours:
a = datetime(2013,1,1,tz=-4.75)

print *, a % isoformat() // a % tzOffset() ! 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000-0445

! Convert a to UTC:
a = a % utc()

print *, a % isoformat() // a % tzOffset() ! 2013-01-01T04:45:00.000+0000

weekday

pure elemental integer function weekday(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

A datetime-bound method to calculate day of the week using Zeller’s congruence. Returns an integer scalar in the range of [0-6], starting from Sunday.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime)  :: a

! Initialize:
a = datetime(2013,1,1)

print *, a % weekday() ! 2

weekdayLong

pure elemental character(len=9) function weekdayLong(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the full name of the day of the week.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime)  :: a

! Initialize:
a = datetime(2013,1,1)

print *, a % weekdayLong() ! Tuesday

weekdayShort

pure elemental character(len=3) function weekdayShort(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

Returns the abbreviated (e.g. Mon) name of the day of the week.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime)  :: a

! Initialize:
a = datetime(2013,1,1)

print *, a % weekdayShort() ! Tue

yearday

pure elemental integer function yearday(self)
  class(datetime),intent(in) :: self

datetime-bound procedure. Returns integer day of the year (ordinal date). Equals to 1 for any January 1, 365 for a December 31 on a non-leap year, and 366 for a December 31 on a leap year.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime

type(datetime)  :: a

! Initialize:
a = datetime(2013,5,1)

print *, a % yearday() ! 121

timedelta

Represents a duration of time, and a difference between two datetime objects. It is defined as:

type :: timedelta

  !! Class of objects that define difference between two datetime
  !! instances.

  private

  integer :: days         = 0 !! number of days
  integer :: hours        = 0 !! number of hours
  integer :: minutes      = 0 !! number of minutes
  integer :: seconds      = 0 !! number of seconds
  integer :: milliseconds = 0 !! number of milliseconds

  contains

  ! getter functions
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getDays
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getHours
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getMinutes
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getSeconds
  procedure,pass(self),public :: getMilliseconds

  ! public methods
  procedure,public :: total_seconds

  ! operator overloading procedures
  procedure,private :: timedelta_plus_timedelta
  procedure,private :: timedelta_minus_timedelta
  procedure,private :: unary_minus_timedelta
  procedure,private :: eq
  procedure,private :: neq
  procedure,private :: gt
  procedure,private :: ge
  procedure,private :: lt
  procedure,private :: le

  generic :: operator(+)  => timedelta_plus_timedelta
  generic :: operator(-)  => timedelta_minus_timedelta,&
                             unary_minus_timedelta
  generic :: operator(==) => eq
  generic :: operator(/=) => neq
  generic :: operator(>)  => gt
  generic :: operator(>=) => ge
  generic :: operator(<)  => lt
  generic :: operator(<=) => le

endtype timedelta

All arguments are optional and default to 0. Similarly to datetime objects, timedelta instances can be initialized using positional and/or keyword arguments. In addition, a timedelta object is a result of subtraction between two datetime objects.

Example usage

use datetime_module

type(datetime)  :: a,b
type(timedelta) :: c

! Initialize as default
c = timedelta()

! Positional arguments:
c = timedelta(0,1,15,0,0) ! 1 hour and 15 minutes

! Keyword arguments:
c = timedelta(days=1,hours=12) ! 1 day and 12 hours

! Difference between datetimes:
a = datetime(2013,5,12,22,0,0) ! 2013-05-12 22:00:00
b = datetime(2012,9,18,14,0,0) ! 2012-09-18 14:00:00

! Subtract to get timedelta:
c = a-b

total_seconds

pure elemental real(kind=real_dp) function total_seconds(self)
  class(timedelta), intent(in) :: self

A timedelta-bound method that returns a number of seconds contained in the time interval defined by the timedelta instance. This method is equivalent to Python’s datetime.timedelta.total_seconds function.

Return value

total_seconds A total number of seconds (of type real(kind=real_dp)) contained in the timedelta instance.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:timedelta

type(timedelta) :: td

td = timedelta(days=5,hours=12,minutes=15,seconds=7,milliseconds=123)

print *, td%total_seconds() ! 476107.12300000002

clock

A generic clock object that contains start and stop times, tick increment and reset and tick methods. Most useful when needing to keep track of many datetime instances that change at different rates, for example, physical models with different time steps.

Definition:

type :: clock

  !! A clock object with a start, stop and current times, tick interval
  !! and tick methods.

  type(datetime) :: startTime
  type(datetime) :: stopTime
  type(datetime) :: currentTime

  type(timedelta) :: tickInterval

  logical :: alarm = .false.

  ! Clock status flags
  logical :: started = .false.
  logical :: stopped = .false.

  contains

  procedure :: reset
  procedure :: tick

endtype clock

clock instance must be initialized with some sane values of clock%startTime, clock%stopTime and clock%tickIncrement in order to be useful.

Example usage

use datetime_module

type(clock)    :: myClock
type(datetime) :: myTime

! Initialize myTime
myTime = myTime%now()

! Initialize myClock
! Starts from myTime, stops 1 hour later, 1 minute per tick
myClock = clock(startTime    = myTime,                   &
                stopTime     = myTime+timedelta(hours=1),&
                tickInterval = timedelta(minutes=1))

do

  call myClock % tick()

  ! Report current time after each tick
  print *, myClock % currentTime % isoformat(' ')

  ! If clock has reached stopTime, exit loop
  if(myClock % stopped)THEN
    exit
  endif

enddo

reset

pure elemental subroutine reset(self)
  class(clock),intent(inout) :: self

Resets the clock to its start time.

Example usage

call myClock%reset() ! Resets myClock%currentTime to myClock%startTime

tick

pure elemental subroutine tick(self)
  class(clock),intent(inout) :: self

Increments the currentTime of the clock instance by one tickInterval. Sets the clock%stopped flag to .TRUE. if clock%currentTime equals or exceeds clock%stopTime.

Example usage

See clock for an example.

tm_struct

Time object compatible with C/C++ tm struct. Available mainly for the purpose of calling c_strftime and c_strptime procedures.

type,bind(c) :: tm_struct

  !! A derived type provided for compatibility with C/C++ time struct.
  !! Allows for calling strftime and strptime procedures through the
  !! iso_c_binding.

  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_sec   !! Seconds      [0-60] (1 leap second)
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_min   !! Minutes      [0-59]
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_hour  !! Hours        [0-23]
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_mday  !! Day          [1-31]
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_mon   !! Month        [0-11]
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_year  !! Year - 1900
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_wday  !! Day of week  [0-6]
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_yday  !! Days in year [0-365]
  integer(kind=c_int) :: tm_isdst !! DST          [-1/0/1]

endtype tm_struct

Overloaded operators

datetime-fortran provides arithmetic and comparison operators for datetime and timedelta objects.

Arithmetic operators

Addition (+) and subtraction (-) operators are available for the following combination of derived type pairs:

datetime + timedelta, returns a datetime instance;
timedelta + datetime, returns a datetime instance;
timedelta + timedelta, returns a timedelta instance;
timedelta - timedelta, returns a timedelta instance;
datetime - datetime, returns a timedelta instance;
-timedelta (unary minus), returns a timedelta instance.

Note that datetime - datetime operation accounts for timezone (tz) offsets in each of the datetime instances. The resulting timedeltathus includes the difference between timezones.

Comparison operators

datetime-fortran supports following binary comparison operators for datetime and timedelta objects: ==, /=, >, >=, < and <=.

Since version 1.0.5, all comparison operators respect the timezone parameter of the datetime instances, so the operands are first adjusted to UTC time before making the comparison.

Public procedures

c_strftime

function c_strftime(str,slen,format,tm) bind(c,name='strftime') result(rc)
  character(kind=c_char),dimension(*),intent(out) :: str
  integer(kind=c_int),value,          intent(in)  :: slen
  character(kind=c_char),dimension(*),intent(in)  :: format
  type(tm_struct),                    intent(in)  :: tm
  integer(kind=c_int)                             :: rc

An interface to a C/C++ standard library routine. Copies into str the content of format, expanding its format specifiers into the corresponding values that represent the time described in tm, with a limit of slen characters.

Note: This function was renamed from strftime to c_strftime in version 0.3.0 to avoid name conflict with datetime-bound method strftime. If working with datetime instances, use datetime%strftime instead.

Arguments

str is the destination character string with the requested date and time.

slen is the maximum number of characters to be copied to str, including the terminating null-character, char(0).

format is the character string containing any combination of regular characters and special format specifiers. These format specifiers are replaced by the function to the corresponding values to represent the time specified in tm. For more information on format specifiers see http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/.

tm is an instance of the type tm_struct, containing date and time values to be processed.

Return value

If the resulting string fits in less than slen characters including the terminating null-character, the total number of characters copied to str (not including the terminating null-character) is returned. Otherwise, zero is returned and the contents of the array are indeterminate.

Example usage

use datetime_module

type(datetime)    :: a
character(len=20) :: res
integer           :: rc

a = a % now()

rc = c_strftime(res,20,"%Y %B %d"//CHAR(0),a%tm())

c_strptime

function c_strptime(str,format,tm) bind(c,name='strptime') result(rc)
  character(kind=c_char),dimension(*),intent(in)  :: str
  character(kind=c_char),dimension(*),intent(in)  :: format
  type(tm_struct),                    intent(out) :: tm
  character(kind=c_char,len=1)                    :: rc

An interface to a C/C++ standard library routine. Converts the character string str to values which are stored in tm, using the format specified by format.

Note: This function was renamed from strptime to c_strptime in version 0.3.0 to avoid name conflicts with strptime which operates on datetime instances. If working with datetime instances, use strptime instead.

Arguments

str is the character string containing date and time information.

format is the character string containing any combination of regular characters and special format specifiers, describing the date and time information in str.

tm is an instance of the type tm_struct, in which the date and time values will be filled upon successful completion of the c_strptime function.

Return value

Upon successful completion, c_strptime returns the character following the last character parsed. Otherwise, a null character is returned.

Example usage

Extracting time difference between two time strings using c_strptime and tm2date:

use datetime_module

type(datetime)  :: date1,date2
type(tm_struct) :: ctime
type(timedelta) :: timediff

! Return code for strptime
character(len=1) :: rc

! Example times in "YYYYMMDD hhmmss" format
character(len=15) :: str1 = "20130512 091519"
character(len=15) :: str2 = "20131116 120418"

! Get tm_struct instance from str1
rc = c_strptime(str1,"%Y%m%d %H%M%S"//char(0),ctime)
date1 = tm2date(ctime)

! Get tm_struct instance from str2
rc = c_strptime(str2,"%Y%m%d %H%M%S"//char(0),ctime)
date2 = tm2date(ctime)

timediff = date2-date1

print *, timediff
print *, timediff % total_seconds()

This example outputs the following:

        188           2          48          58        1000
   16253339.0000000

date2num

pure elemental real(kind=real_dp) function date2num(d)
  type(datetime),intent(in) :: d

Returns the number of days since 0001-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, given a datetime instance d.

This function is similar in what it returns to analogous functions in Python (matplotlib.dates.date2num) and MATLAB’s datenum. Note that matplotlib.dates.date2num returns the number of days since 0001-01-01 00:00:00 UTC plus 1 (for historical reasons), and MATLAB’s datenum returns the number of days since 0000-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. In datetime-fortran, we choose the reference time of 0001-01-01 00:00:00 UTC as we consider it to be the least astonishing for the average user. Thus, MATLAB and Python users should be cautious when using datetime-fortran’s date2num() function.

Since version 1.0.5, date2num is timezone aware, i.e. the datetime instance is first converted to UTC before calculating the number of days.

date2num is the inverse function of num2date, so by definition, a % utc() == num2date(date2num(a)) evaluates as .true. for any datetime instance a.

Arguments

d A datetime instance.

Return value

date2num A REAL(KIND=real64) number of days since 0001-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime,date2num

type(datetime)  :: a

! Initialize:
a = datetime(2013,1,1,6)

print *, date2num(a) ! 734869.25000000000

datetimeRange

pure function datetimeRange(d0,d1,t)
  type(datetime), intent(in) :: d0
  type(datetime), intent(in) :: d1
  type(timedelta),intent(in) :: t

Given start and end datetime instances d0 and d1, and time increment as timedelta instance t, returns an array of datetime instances. The number of elements is the number of whole time increments contained between datetimes d0 and d1.

Arguments

d0 A datetime instance with start time. Will be the first element of the resulting array.

d1 A datetime instance with end time. Will be the equal to or greater than the last element of the resulting array.

t A timedelta instance being the time increment for the resulting array.

Return value

datetimeRange An array of datetime instances of length floor((d1-d0)/t)+1

Example usage

type(datetime)  :: a,b
type(timedelta) :: td

type(datetime),dimension(:),allocatable :: dtRange

a  = datetime(2014,5,1)
b  = datetime(2014,5,3)
td = timedelta(days=1)

dtRange = datetimeRange(a,b,td)

! Returns:
!
! dtRange = [datetime(2014,5,1),
!            datetime(2014,5,2),
!            datetime(2014,5,3)]

a  = datetime(2014,5,1)
b  = datetime(2014,5,3)
td = timedelta(hours=7)

dtRange = datetimeRange(a,b,td)

! Returns:
!
! dtRange = [datetime(2014,5,1,0),
!            datetime(2014,5,1,7),
!            datetime(2014,5,1,14),
!            datetime(2014,5,1,21),
!            datetime(2014,5,2, 4),
!            datetime(2014,5,2,11),
!            datetime(2014,5,2,18)]

daysInMonth

pure elemental integer function daysInMonth(month,year)
  integer,intent(in) :: month
  integer,intent(in) :: year

Returns the number of days in month for a given month and year. This function is declared as elemental, so it can be called with scalar or n-dimensional array arguments.

Arguments

month Integer number of month in year. Valid values are in the range [1-12].

year Integer year.

Return value

Returns an integer number of days in requested month and year. Returns 0 if month is not in valid range.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:daysInMonth

! January on leap year:
print *, daysInMonth(1,2012)   ! 31

! February on leap year:
print *, daysInMonth(2,2012)   ! 29

! February on non-leap year
print *, daysInMonth(2,2013)   ! 28

daysInYear

pure elemental integer Function daysInYear(year)
  integer,intent(in) :: year

Given an integer year, returns an integer number of days in that year. Calls the isLeapYear function.

Arguments

year An integer scalar or array containing the desired year number(s).

Return value

daysInYear An integer scalar or array. Represents the number of days in year.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:daysInYear

! Leap year:
print *, daysInYear(2012) ! 366

! Non-leap year:
print *, daysInYear(2013) ! 365

isLeapYear

pure elemental logical function isLeapYear(year)
  integer,intent(in) :: year

Returns a logical value indicating whether the reqested year is a leap year.

Arguments

year An integer scalar or array representing year number.

Return value

isLeapYear A logical scalar or array indicating whether a given year is leap year.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:isLeapYear

! Leap year:
print *, isLeapYear(2012) ! .true.

! Non-leap year:
print *, isLeapYear(2013) ! .false.

num2date

pure elemental type(datetime) function num2date(num)
  real(kind=real_dp),intent(in) :: num

Given the number of days since 0001-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, returns a correspoding datetime instance.

This function is similar to analogous function in Python (matplotlib.dates.num2date).

num2date is the inverse function of date2num, so by definition, a == num2date(date2num(a)) evaluates as .true. for any datetime instance a. Similarly, b == date2num(num2date(b)) evaluates as .true. for any variable b of type real(kind=real64).

Arguments

num Number of days since 0001-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.

Return value

num2date A datetime instance.

Example usage

use datetime_module,only:datetime,num2date

type(datetime)  :: a

a = num2date(734869.25d0) ! a becomes datetime(2013,1,1,6,0,0,0)

strptime

type(datetime) function strptime(str,format)
  character(len=*),intent(in) :: str
  character(len=*),intent(in) :: format

A wrapper function around c_strptime. Given a character string str with the format format, returns an appropriate datetime instance containing that time information. This function is analogous to Python’s datetime.datetime.strptime() function. Available since version 0.3.0.

Arguments

str is the character string containing date and time information.

format is the character string containing any combination of regular characters and special format specifiers, describing the date and time information in str.

Return value

Upon successful completion, strptime returns the datetime instance corresponding to the time information contained in str.

Example usage

Extracting time difference between two time strings using strptime:

use datetime_module

type(datetime)  :: date1,date2
type(timedelta) :: timediff

! Example times in "YYYYMMDD hhmmss" format
character(len=15) :: str1 = "20130512 091519"
character(len=15) :: str2 = "20131116 120418"

date1 = strptime(str1,"%Y%m%d %H%M%S")
date2 = strptime(str2,"%Y%m%d %H%M%S")

timediff = date2-date1

print *, timediff
print *, timediff%total_seconds()

This example outputs the following:

        188           2          48          58        1000
   16253339.0000000

This is the same example as in c_strptime but with fewer necessary steps.

tm2date

pure elemental type(datetime) function tm2date(ctime)
  type(tm_struct),intent(in) :: ctime

Given a tm_struct instance, returns a corresponding datetime instance. Mostly useful for obtaining a datetime instance after a tm_struct is returned from strptime.

Arguments

ctime A tm_struct instance.

Return value

tm2date A datetime instance.

Example usage

See example usage for strptime.

machinetimezone

real(real64) function machinetimezone()

returns the machine’s time zone in hours.

Arguments

None

Return value

real(real64) A tz value.

Example usage

Extracting your local machine’s time zone information.

type(datetime) :: date
date = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tz=machinetimezone())

epochdatetime

pure elemental type(datetime) function epochdatetime()
    epochdatetime = datetime(1970,1,1,0,0,0,0,tz=0.)

returns a datetime that corresponds to the UNIX epoch.

Arguments

None

Return value

type(datetime) A datetime(1970,1,1,0,0,0,0,tz=0.0) value.

Example usage

type(datetime) :: epochday
epochday = epochdatetime()

localtime

  pure elemental type(datetime) function localtime(epoch, tz)
    ! Returns a `datetime` instance from epoch.
    ! tz can be obtained from `machinetimezone`
    integer(int64),intent(in) :: epoch
    real(real64),intent(in) :: tz !! local machine time zone information

Generating a datetime type from epoch and timezone.

Arguments

epoch A epoch time (second)

tz A time zone (hour). This value can be generated by using machinetimezone

Return value

type(datetime) A datetime instance.

Example usage

Convert the epoch seconds to an expression in your machine’s time zone.

integer(int64), parameter :: epoch = 3600
real(real64) :: tz
type(datetime) :: date
tz = machinetimezone()
date = localtime(epoch, tz)

gmtime

  pure elemental type(datetime) function gmtime(epoch)
    ! Returns a `datetime` instance from epoch.
    integer(int64),intent(in) :: epoch

Generating a datetime type from epoch.

Arguments

epoch A epoch time (second)

Return value

type(datetime) A datetime instance. Result is represented with UTC time.

Example usage

Convert the epoch seconds to an expression in UTC time zone.

integer(int64) :: epoch = 3600
type(datetime) :: day
day = gmtime(epoch)

datetime-fortran

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datetime

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getYear

getMonth

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getMinute

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getMillisecond

isocalendar

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isoformat

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isValid

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now

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secondsSinceEpoch

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strftime

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tm

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tzOffset

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utc

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weekday

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weekdayLong

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weekdayShort

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yearday

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timedelta

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total_seconds

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clock

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reset

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tick

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tm_struct

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