timeUnitsCheck (pyleoclim.utils.lipdutils.timeUnitsCheck)

pyleoclim.utils.lipdutils.timeUnitsCheck(units)[source]

This function attempts to make sense of the time units by checking for equivalence

Parameters: units (string) – The units string for the timeseries
Returns: unit_group – Whether the units belongs to age_units, kage_units, year_units, ma_units, or undefined
Return type: string