<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can also parse the result when you 'set t' or 'set time' and manipulate those strings to get the date in a format you like. In a descriptor file, the date strings in the TDEF and EDEF entries must be in the documented format. <div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Dave Allured wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>It can be changed easily. Here is some grads script that I use to <br>make plot titles:<br><br> 'query time'<br> datestr = subwrd (result, 3)<br><br> if (substr (datestr, 3, 1) = 'Z')<br> zptr = 3<br> else<br> zptr = 6<br> endif<br><br> timestr = substr (datestr, 1, zptr)<br> date = substr (datestr, zptr+1, 99)<br><br> dd = substr (date, 1, 2)<br> mmm = substr (date, 3, 3)<br> yyyy = substr (date, 6, 4)<br><br> date2 = dd ' ' mmm ' ' yyyy<br> say date2<br><br>--Dave<br><br>On 10/10/2011 9:37 AM, Stefan Gofferje wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Is the date format (e.g. 6Z21OCT2011) hardcoded in GrADs or can it be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">changed easily?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>