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Scilab Help >> Time and Date

Time and Date

  • calendar — Calendar
  • clock — Return current time as date vector
  • date — Current date as date string
  • datenum — Convert to serial date number
  • datevec — Date components
  • eomday — Return last day of month
  • etime — Elapsed time
  • getdate — get date and time information
  • now — Return current date under the form of a Unix hour (timestamp)
  • realtime — set dates origin or waits until date
  • sleep — suspend all code executions (console, scripts, callbacks,..)
  • tic — start a stopwatch timer
  • timer — cpu time
  • toc — Read the stopwatch timer
  • weekday — Return day of week
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