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etime

Elapsed time

Syntax

e = etime(t2,t1)

Arguments

t2

a vector with 6 or 10 values.

t1

a vector with 6 or 10 values.

e

number of seconds between t2 and t1.

Description

t1 and t2 with 10 values

t2 and t1 must have format returned by getdate. In this case, their third, fourth and fifth values are ignored.

t1 and t2 with 6 values

t2 and t1 must have format: T = [Year Month Day Hour Minute Second] with Second a number of seconds with milliseconds (e.g: 12.345).

t2 and t1 must have the same size.

t2 et t1 can be matrices with each line containing a format described above (all lines having same format).

Examples

t1=[2004 06 10 17 00 12.345]
t2=[2004 06 10 17 01 13.965]
E1=etime(t2,t1)
t1=[2004 06 24 162 5 10 17 00 12 345]
t2=[2004 06 24 162 5 10 17 01 13 965]
E2=etime(t2,t1)

See also

  • tic — start a stopwatch timer
  • toc — Read the stopwatch timer
  • getdate — Current datetime or POSIX timestamp from computer's clock. Datetimes from given timestamps
  • datenum — Convert to serial date number
  • datevec — Date components
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