etime

Elapsed time

Calling Sequence

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 get date and time information
• datenum Convert to serial date number
• datevec Date components