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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from date
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Markus Mützel |
Subject: |
[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 06:20:01 -0500 (EST) |
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Update of bug #59979 (project octave):
Category: None => Octave Function
Item Group: None => WTF, Matlab?!?
Operating System: GNU/Linux => Any
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Follow-up Comment #7:
The code in comment #5 leads to a time just short of 20 minutes after midnight
in Octave:
>> format long
>> a = datenum ([2021, 1, 27, 17, 0, 0]);
>> b = datenum ([2021, 1, 27, 16, 40, 0]);
>> datevec (a-b)
ans =
-1.000000000000000e+00 1.200000000000000e+01 3.100000000000000e+01
0 1.900000000000000e+01 5.999999888241291e+01
The component with the seconds rounds to 60 when displayed with less digits.
I'm not sure if it makes sense to "arbitrarily" round is this case...
The other question regarding the date part in Matlab's result is: There is no
0th of January on a Gregorian calendar. How does Matlab's datenum represent
the 31st of December 1 BCE?
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Alan, 2021/01/30
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, anonymous, 2021/01/30
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Tasos Papastylianou, 2021/01/30
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Tasos Papastylianou, 2021/01/30
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Alan, 2021/01/30
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Tasos Papastylianou, 2021/01/30
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, anonymous, 2021/01/30
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec,
Markus Mützel <=
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Markus Mützel, 2021/01/31
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Tasos Papastylianou, 2021/01/31
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Tasos Papastylianou, 2021/01/31
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Philip Nienhuis, 2021/01/31
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, Markus Mützel, 2021/01/31
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, anonymous, 2021/01/31
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec, anonymous, 2021/01/31