Updating epoch to astropy.time.Time (#114)

* Updating epoch to astropy time * importing astropy.time * Update xrtpy/util/time.py Co-authored-by: Will Barnes <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Nick Murphy <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Nick Murphy <[email protected]>
HinodeXRT · Jan 20, 2023 · 963dfed · 963dfed
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diff --git a/xrtpy/util/time.py b/xrtpy/util/time.py
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
     "epoch",
 ]
 
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+import astropy.time
+
+from datetime import timedelta
 
 # Hinode-XRT mission elapsed time "Epoch" is Sept 22, 2006 21:36:00.
-epoch = datetime(year=2006, month=9, day=22, hour=21, minute=36, second=0)
+epoch = astropy.time.Time("2006-09-22 21:36:00")
 
 
 def xrt_data_time_to_dt(data_time, epoch):