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ee.Date.get
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Returns the specified unit of this date.
| Usage | Returns | Date.get(unit, timeZone) | Long |
| Argument | Type | Details | this: date | Date | |
unit | String | One of 'year', 'month' (returns 1-12), 'week' (1-53), 'day' (1-31), 'hour' (0-23), 'minute' (0-59), or 'second' (0-59). |
timeZone | String, default: null | The time zone (e.g., 'America/Los_Angeles'); defaults to UTC. |
Examples
Code Editor (JavaScript)
var date = ee.Date('2021-4-30T07:15:31');
print('Year', date.get('year'));
print('Month', date.get('month'));
print('Week', date.get('week'));
print('Day', date.get('day'));
print('Hour', date.get('hour'));
print('Minute', date.get('minute'));
print('Second', date.get('second'));
Python setup
See the
Python Environment page for information on the Python API and using
geemap for interactive development.
import ee
import geemap.core as geemap
Colab (Python)
date = ee.Date('2021-4-30T07:15:31')
display('Year:', date.get('year'))
display('Month:', date.get('month'))
display('Week:', date.get('week'))
display('Day:', date.get('day'))
display('Hour:', date.get('hour'))
display('Minute:', date.get('minute'))
display('Second:', date.get('second'))
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Last updated 2024-07-13 UTC.
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