This page was created by the IDL library routine `mk_html_help2`.

Last modified: Tue Sep 23 18:17:45 2025.

# Directory Listing of Routines

# general/misc/time/deprecated

- STR2TIME

# Routine Descriptions

## STR2TIME

[List of Routines]

     Warning: This routine is deprecated.  Use the TFORMAT keyword to time_double/time_struct instead

    FUNCTION str2time(string, informat=string)
     INPUT: scalar string.
     Returns seconds since 1970 given virtually any input string.
     (Assumes the string is GMT)
     The user should specify the input order of Year, Month, Date, hour, min, second is with INFORMAT keyword
     INFORMAT should be a 6 character string:  "YMDhms"  specifies Year/Mon/Date-hour:minute:second
     examples:      time = str2time(systime(),informat='MDhmsY')
                    time = str2time('tue, 04 jul 2006 19:00:04 gmt',informat='DMYhms')
     Written by Davin Larson - 2007

     This routine is deprecated.  Use the TFORMAT keyword to time_double/time_struct instead

(See general/misc/time/deprecated/str2time.pro)