Unix time conversion to Matlab time

[Michel Guillemette]

Hello All,

Is there an easy way (m-file if available) to convert the Unix time
(ex.: 985944523) to the Matlab time format?

Thanks for your help.

Michel

[us]

you may want to look at the attached code snippet <u2mtime.m>
us

"Michel Guillemette" <mgui...@foxboro.ca> wrote in message
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[us]

sorry for a stupid typo:
to explain how i did things i copied my ori <tconv.m> to <u2mtime.m> and
added some <%comment>s to show where the numbers come from. most (!)
unfortunately, i also introduced a typo with the EST/GMT conversion by
subtracting 5/25 (as opposed to 5/24, note: even in our lab a day most
often only has 24hrs ...).
well, here's the original (attached).

usage:

ml_tics = tconv(unix_tics);
datestr(ml_tics)

e.g:
datestr(tconv(0))
31-Dec-1969 19:00:00 % EST/GMT
% note: you will have to adjust the time-zone accordingly!

us

[Peter J. Acklam]

mgui...@foxboro.ca (Michel Guillemette) writes:

> Is there an easy way (m-file if available) to convert the Unix
> time (ex.: 985944523) to the Matlab time format?

If `n' is the number of seconds since the epoch (assuming the
epoch was at 1970-1-1 00:00), you can use

datevec(datenum(1970,1,1) + n/86400)

Replace `datevec' with `datestr' if you want some other kind of
date formatting.

Peter

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