Returns the ratio of the length of one unit to the length of another, e.g., unitRatio('day', 'minute') returns 1440. Valid units are 'year', 'month' 'week', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', and 'second'.
| Usage | Returns | ee.Date.unitRatio(numerator, denominator) | Float |
| Argument | Type | Details | numerator | String | |
denominator | String | |
Examples
Code Editor (JavaScript)
print('Minutes in a day', ee.Date.unitRatio('day', 'minute'));
print('Seconds in a year', ee.Date.unitRatio('year', 'second'));
print('Years in a month', ee.Date.unitRatio('month', 'year'));
print('Hours in a week', ee.Date.unitRatio('week', 'hour'));
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)
display('Minutes in a day:', ee.Date.unitRatio('day', 'minute'))
display('Seconds in a year:', ee.Date.unitRatio('year', 'second'))
display('Years in a month:', ee.Date.unitRatio('month', 'year'))
display('Hours in a week:', ee.Date.unitRatio('week', 'hour'))