.TH WFDBTIME 1 "1 March 2009" "WFDB 10.4.16" "WFDB Applications Guide"
.SH NAME
wfdbtime \- convert time to sample number, elapsed, and absolute time
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBwfdbtime\fR \fB-r\fR \fIrecord\fR \fItime\fR [ \fItime\fR ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Using the specified \fIrecord\fR as a reference for determining the
length of a sample interval and the absolute time represented by
sample number 0, this program accepts one or more \fItime\fR arguments
(in WFDB standard time format) and produces one line on the standard
output for each such argument.  In each output line, the corresponding
\fItime\fR is written as a sample number (in the form s\fInnn\fR), as
an elapsed time interval in hours, minutes, and seconds from the
beginning of the \fIrecord\fR (in the form \fIhh:mm:ss.sss\fR), and as
an absolute time and date (in the form [\fIhh:mm:ss.sss
DD/MM/YYYY\fR]).  If the base time for the record is undefined, the
absolute time cannot be calculated, and in this case the elapsed time
appears (a second time) instead.
.PP
Additional \fB-r\fI record\fR arguments may be given in the same command,
to reset the sample interval length and base time for any subsequent \fItime\fR
arguments.
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
The command
.IP
wfdbtime -r mimicdb/237/237 0 10:0 s20 "[14:0:0 20/7/1995]" e
.LP
produces the output
.IP
.br
             s0	       0:00.000	[12:40:38.000 20/07/1995]
.br
         s75000	      10:00.000	[12:50:38.000 20/07/1995]
.br
            s20	       0:00.160	[12:40:38.160 20/07/1995]
.br
        s595250	    1:19:22.000	[14:00:00.000 20/07/1995]
.br
      s19199992	   42:39:59.936	[07:20:37.936 22/07/1995]
.PP
Note that the input arguments need not be zero-padded, that an
input argument in absolute time format must be quoted to protect
the brackets from the shell, and that the input argument \fBe\fR
is evaluated as the time of the last sample in the input record.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
It may be necessary to set and export the shell variable \fBWFDB\fR (see
\fBsetwfdb\fR(1)).
.SH FILES
.TP 22
\fIrecord\fR.hea
header file
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBtime2sec\fR(1)
.br
http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wpg/strtim.htm (for further
details about standard time format and additional examples)
.SH AUTHOR
George B. Moody (george@mit.edu)
.SH SOURCE
http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wfdb/app/wfdbtime.c