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Scilab Help >> Time and Date

Time and Date

  • calendarCalendar of a given month and year (Gregorian dates)
  • clockReturn current time as date vector
  • dateCurrent date as date string
  • datenumConvert to serial date number
  • datevecDate components
  • eomdayReturn last day of month
  • etimeElapsed time
  • getdateget date and time information
  • nowReturn current date under the form of a Unix hour (timestamp)
  • realtimesets the initial datetime and starts the chronometer, or waits until a given datetime
  • sleepsuspend all code executions (console, scripts, callbacks,..)
  • ticstart a stopwatch timer
  • timercpu time
  • tocRead the stopwatch timer
  • weekdayDay's index and name in its week for given dates
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