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1 ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008 John W. Eaton
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2 ##
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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9 ##
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} clock ()
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21 ## Return a vector containing the current year, month (1-12), day (1-31),
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22 ## hour (0-23), minute (0-59) and second (0-61). For example:
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23 ##
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24 ## @example
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25 ## @group
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26 ## clock ()
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27 ## @result{} [ 1993, 8, 20, 4, 56, 1 ]
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28 ## @end group
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29 ## @end example
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30 ##
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31 ## The function clock is more accurate on systems that have the
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32 ## @code{gettimeofday} function.
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33 ## @end deftypefn
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35 ## Author: jwe
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37 function retval = clock ()
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39 tm = localtime (time ());
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41 retval = zeros (1, 6);
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43 retval(1) = tm.year + 1900;
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44 retval(2) = tm.mon + 1;
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45 retval(3) = tm.mday;
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46 retval(4) = tm.hour;
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47 retval(5) = tm.min;
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48 retval(6) = tm.sec + tm.usec / 1e6;
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50 endfunction
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52 %!test
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53 %! t1 = clock;
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54 %! t2 = str2num (strftime ("[%Y, %m, %d, %H, %M, %S]", localtime (time ())));
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55 %! assert(etime (t1, t2) < 1);
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