TimeFromEpoch

class astropy.time.TimeFromEpoch(val1, val2, scale, precision, in_subfmt, out_subfmt, from_jd=False)

Bases: astropy.time.TimeFormat

Base class for times that represent the interval from a particular epoch as a floating point multiple of a unit time interval (e.g. seconds or days).

Attributes Summary

value

Methods Summary

set_jds(val1, val2)

Initialize the internal jd1 and jd2 attributes given val1 and val2.

Attributes Documentation

value

Methods Documentation

set_jds(val1, val2)

Initialize the internal jd1 and jd2 attributes given val1 and val2. For an TimeFromEpoch subclass like TimeUnix these will be floats giving the effective seconds since an epoch time (e.g. 1970-01-01 00:00:00).