spacepy.time.randomDate¶
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spacepy.time.
randomDate
(dt1, dt2, N=1, tzinfo=False, sorted=False)[source]¶ Return a (or many) random datetimes between two given dates, this is done under the convention dt <=1 rand < dt2
Parameters: dt1 : datetime.datetime
start date for the the random date
dt2 : datetime.datetime
stop date for the the random date
Returns: out : datetime.datetime or numpy.ndarray of datetime.datetime
the new time for the next call to EventTimer
Other Parameters: N : int (optional)
the number of random dates to generate (defualt=1)
tzinfo : bool (optional)
maintain the tzinfo of the input datetimes (default=False)
sorted : bool (optional)
return the times sorted (default=False)