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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/calgetdate.html
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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 calGetDate Context: caldb

Synopsis

Returns the observation start date stored in the CALDB structure.

Syntax

String_Type calGetDate( Caldb_Type cal )

Description

This function returns the start date of the observation stored in the CALDB structure. The returned date may not contain the start time of the observation if the CALDB structure was created from a file; this depends on the format of the DATE-OBS keyword in the file. However, the calGetTime() function is guaranteed to return the start time of the observation.

Example

  variable cal = calCreateInfo( "img.fits" );
  variable date = calGetDate( cal );
  vmessage( "The observation started on %s", date );

Bugs

See the bugs page for the caldb library on the CIAO website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.

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Last modified: December 2006



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