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bimams.timerange - Function

	Package	bima
	Module	bimams
	Tool	bimams

Get the maximum and minimum times in the MS

Synopsis
timerange()

Description
This function returns the maximum and minimum times in the MS. The thing returned is a record with fields max and min. Each field contains a quantity corresponding to the maximum and minimum times, respectively.

Arguments

Returns
A record containing the maximum and minimum times
.

Example

# construct a bimams tool and assign it to a Glish variable named bms
- bms := bimams('1733-130');
# get the maximum and minimum times
- tra := bms.timerange();
- tra
[max=[value=4.38575597e+09, unit=s], min=[value=4.38573665e+09, unit=s]]
# now convert the maximum time to something meaningful to a human
- dq.time(tra.max,form='ymd');
1997/11/09/01:32:52.170