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| date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:54:49 +0000 |
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| 1 ## Copyright (C) 2000 Paul Kienzle | |
| 2 ## | |
| 3 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 4 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 5 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
| 6 ## (at your option) any later version. | |
| 7 ## | |
| 8 ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 9 ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 10 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 11 ## GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 12 ## | |
| 13 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 14 ## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | |
| 15 ## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | |
| 16 | |
| 17 ## -*- texinfo -*- | |
| 18 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} now | |
| 19 ## Returns the current local time as a number of days since Jan 1, 0000. | |
| 20 ## By this reckoning, Jan 1, 1970 is day number 719529. The fractional | |
| 21 ## portion, @code{rem(now,1)} corresponds to the portion of the current | |
| 22 ## day. | |
| 23 ## | |
| 24 ## @seealso{date,clock,datenum,datestr,datevec,calendar,weekday} | |
| 25 ## @end deftypefn | |
| 26 | |
| 27 function t = now | |
| 28 ## seconds since 1970-1-1 divided by 86400 sec/day plus day num for 1970-1-1 | |
| 29 t = mktime(localtime(time))/86400 + 719529; | |
| 30 endfunction |