MATLAB: Creating timetable from excel for rainfall data

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Hello,

I am trying to import the excel data on hourly rainfall (attached) to calculate the daily, monthly, and annual rainfall.

Could anybody help me with creating timetable for the above dataset so that it would be possible to apply retime approach to calculate the daily/monthly?

Many thanks.

Best Answer

Considering that excel has a perfectly working date/time time, one must wonder why you're not using it. At least, encoding the date and time as characters would make more sense than this completely non-standard date and time storage. In particular using hour 24 on the current day instead of hour 0 on the next day makes no sense at all.

badlyformatteddata = readtable('RAINFALL_HOURLY.xlsx');
rainfall = table2timetable(badlyformatteddata(:, 'RainMm'), 'RowTimes', datetime(compose('%d %06d', badlyformatteddata.Date, mod(badlyformatteddata.Time, 240000)), 'InputFormat', 'yyyyMMdd HHmmss'));
rainfall.Time(hour(rainfall.Time) == 0) = rainfall.Time(hour(rainfall.Time) == 0) + days(1)  %To account for that stupid hour 24

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Frank, what's up is Daylight Saving Time, which occurred on March 8th this year. I'm guessing you knew that, but got mixed up in the time arithmetic. Here's what's going on. You have this:

>> time = ['2015/03/08 00:00';'2015/03/08 01:00';'2015/03/08 03:00';'2015/03/08 04:00'];
>> Time = datenum(time,'yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM')
Time =
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date = 
   08-Mar-2015 00:00:00
   08-Mar-2015 01:00:00
   08-Mar-2015 03:00:00
   08-Mar-2015 04:00:00

... I assume you mean that those datenums are to be interpreted as times in the America/Montreal time zone. But what you've left out is this:

>> date.Format = [date.Format ' z']
date = 
   08-Mar-2015 00:00:00 UTC-5
   08-Mar-2015 01:00:00 UTC-5
   08-Mar-2015 03:00:00 UTC-4
   08-Mar-2015 04:00:00 UTC-4

The second and third times are only an hour apart. Then this ...

>> [UTC_Offset,dst] = tzoffset(date);
>> Date = date - UTC_Offset
Date = 
   08-Mar-2015 06:00:00 UTC-4
   08-Mar-2015 07:00:00 UTC-4
   08-Mar-2015 07:00:00 UTC-4
   08-Mar-2015 08:00:00 UTC-4

... adds 5 hours to the first and second times, but adds only 4 hours to the third and fourth times. But you're doing the addition in the America/Montreal time zone. Adding 5 hours to the first two puts them after the DST shift @2am, which makes them look like you added 6 hours. In other words, your array is not UTC, it's shifted America/Montreal. The easiest thing to do to get UTC times is this:

>> date.TimeZone = 'UTC'
date = 
   08-Mar-2015 05:00:00 UTC
   08-Mar-2015 06:00:00 UTC
   08-Mar-2015 07:00:00 UTC
   08-Mar-2015 08:00:00 UTC

Hope this helps.

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