ee.Date.update

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The update method creates a new Date by setting one or more units of a given Date to a new value.

• The new values are interpreted in the specified time zone, defaulting to UTC if none is given.

• The method can update the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second components of a Date.

Create a new Date by setting one or more of the units of the given Date to a new value. If a timeZone is given the new value(s) is interpreted in that zone.

Usage	Returns
Date.update(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, timeZone)	Date

Argument	Type	Details
this: date	Date
year	Integer, default: null
month	Integer, default: null
day	Integer, default: null
hour	Integer, default: null
minute	Integer, default: null
second	Number, default: null
timeZone	String, default: null	The time zone (e.g., 'America/Los_Angeles'); defaults to UTC.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var date = ee.Date('2021-4-30T07:15:31.24');

print('Updated year and minute components of the input date',
  date.update({
    year: 2010,
    minute: 59
  })
);

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)

date = ee.Date('2021-4-30T07:15:31.24')

display(
    'Updated year and minute components of the input date:',
    date.update(year=2010, minute=59)
)