[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #59979 (project octave):

@Markus comment #12:
Maybe Matlab deliberately rounds up as soon as the smallest fraction in
datevec's output for seconds (milliseconds, 'FFF') is prone to be rounded
(i.e., seconds >= 59.9995 milliseconds)?
(I suppose that's the actual question asked in comment #6.)

If so, Matlab's behavior wouldn't be unreasonable IMO. That is, I think
datenums are simply the most accurate and suitable for date/time calculations,
while IMO datevec and datestr are just interpretations/translations of some
time value for display purposes and shouldn't be used for (much) further
processing.
Even if the display is wrong the totals are still correct, so it's primarily a
cosmetics bug.


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