spacepy.omni.omnirange

spacepy.omni.omnirange(dbase='QDhourly')

Returns datetimes giving start and end times in the OMNI/Qin-Denton data

The update function in toolbox retrieves all available hourly Qin-Denton data, and this function accesses that and looks up the start and end times, returning them as datetime objects.

Parameters:

dbasestring (optional)

name of omni database to check. Currently ‘QDhourly’ and ‘OMNI2hourly’

Returns:

omnirangetuple

containing two datetimes giving the start and end times of the available data

Examples

>>> import spacepy.omni as om
>>> om.omnirange()
(datetime.datetime(1963, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 30, 23, 0))
>>> om.omnirange(dbase='OMNI2hourly')
(datetime.datetime(1963, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 30, 23, 0))