How to convert Julian date to standard date?
The .strptime()
method supports the day of year format:
>>> import datetime
>>>
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('16234', '%y%j').date()
datetime.date(2016, 8, 21)
And then you can use strftime()
to reformat the date
>>> date = datetime.date(2016, 8, 21)
>>> date.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
'21/08/2016'
Well, first, create a datetime
object (from the module datetime
)
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timedelta
julian = ... # Your julian datetime
date = datetime.strptime("1/1/" + jul[:2], "%m/%d/%y")
# Just initializing the start date, which will be January 1st in the year of the Julian date (2 first chars)
Now add the days from the start date:
daysToAdd = int(julian[2:]) # Taking the days and converting to int
date += timedelta(days = daysToAdd - 1)
Now, you can just print it as is:
print(str(date))
Or you can use strftime()
function.
print(date.strftime("%d/%m/%y"))
Read more about strftime
format string here