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DateFunction

DateFunction
is an option for DateListPlot which specifies how dates given as input should be converted to date lists.
  • A setting such as DateFunction->(DateList[#, {"e1", ...}]&) specifies that a sequence of elements "ei" should be extracted from each date. »
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Basic Examples   (2)
Prepend a year to create dates from {month, day} lists:
Interpret dates indexed by a week number:
Prepend a year to create dates from {month, day} lists:
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Interpret dates indexed by a week number:
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Scope   (1)
Define functions for interpreting ambiguous date strings:
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