Time Series with absolute time

[Omar]

Hello all.

Got a problem here that I hope you guys can help me with.

It seems that the implementation class for TimePeriod like 'Hour','Minute','Second' takes just 'Day' as the argument for their constructor.

This means that a 'Minute' object does not know to which 'Hour' it is in, etc... Thus a time series graph (using BasicTimeSeries and TimeSeriesCollection) that is making use of the TimePeriod interface implementation cannot plot a graph with abosulte time. i.e. A 'minute based' time series, the time 14:10 BEFORE 13:50.

I need to plot a time series graph based on absolute time. Thus anybody know any specific technique on how I can achieve this?

Thank you in advance.

Omar

[David Gilbert]

Hi Omar,

I spend most of my time working with daily data, but I want the time series classes to work well for other time periods, so I'd like to understand the issue here...but what do you mean by "absolute" time?

Regards,

DG.

[Omar]

What I mean by absolute time is that if I use the "Minute" object, it must be related to the hour that the minute belongs to.

In short, I want to be able to input data into BasicTimeSeries with time periods lke 15:20, 16:35, 17:10,etc...

I found that if I just specify, say 30min for a particular day, it will default to the 30th minute of 1600 hours.

I'm getting around this problem by understanding that the -960 minute is at 12am, and work my way from there.