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Re: Matcompat's datenum.m weirdness
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James Howard |
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Re: Matcompat's datenum.m weirdness |
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Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:34:19 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, E. Joshua Rigler wrote:
> Can someone explain the following?
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> octave:240> datenum (1995, 01, 05)
> ans = 728664.291666667
> ^^^^^^^^^
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> In particular, why is there a fractional day? I included no hours,
Without a lot of evidence, I think it is a timezone issue. Set your
timezone to GMT before starting Octave and this should work. Or, run
datenum(1995,1,5,17,0,0) because Colorado is seven hours behind GMT (I am
in DC and we are five back).
Jamie
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