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