decimal-date v0.2.0

decimal-date

Accepts a date in any format and returns a decimal date like seen in BEAST or the lubridate R package.

Use in your pipeline alongside beast, treedater, phylotree.js, etc., and realize your dreams. 💫

Installation

yarn global add decimal-date

Example command

decimal-date 1984-09-20 -f YYYY-MM-DD

Example output

10:03:55 sweaver@home decimal-date 2017-01-20                                           
2017.0510752688172

FAQ

But Steve, I have a csv file that looks like this and I wanna convert all the dates. This tool is stupid.

10:17:43 sweaver@home ? head tips.csv 
BetaCoV_USA_IL2_2020_EPI_ISL_410045,2020-01-28
BetaCoV_USA_CA6_2020_EPI_ISL_410044,2020-01-27
BetaCoV_USA_MA1_2020_EPI_ISL_409067,2020-01-29
BetaCoV_Wuhan_WH05_2020_EPI_ISL_408978,2020-02-07
BetaCoV_Sydney_3_2020_EPI_ISL_408977,2020-01-25
BetaCoV_Sydney_2_2020_EPI_ISL_408976,2020-01-22
BetaCoV_HongKong_VM20001061_2020_EPI_ISL_408975,2020-01-22
BetaCoV_USA_WI1_2020_EPI_ISL_408670,2020-01-31
BetaCoV_Japan_KY-V-029_2020_EPI_ISL_408669,2020-01-29
BetaCoV_Vietnam_VR03-38142_2020_EPI_ISL_408668,2020-01-24

np, just do something like this or use whatever else.

for x in $(cat tips.csv); do echo -n `cut -d',' -f1 <<< $x`, >> converted.csv; decimal-date `cut -d',' -f2 <<< $x` >> converted.csv; done;

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