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Best way to store a time-stamp [message #38016]

Tue, 10 February 2004 02:58

MKatz843
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Registered: March 2002

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I'm interested to know what method people use for making a time-stamp.
With each datapoint I'd like to record the current time, store it, and
be able to read it and plot with it later.

systime(0) gives a well-formatted string, but it would be difficult to
deconstruct back into abscissa values.

systime(1) is great for relative and elapsed time, but is it easy to
convert it into absolute date and time down to fractions of a second?

systime(1, /julian) seems to only change once per second.

Ideally, I'd like a double-precision number that I can store, and a
function I can use to interpret the values as read-able date stamps.

Thanks,
M. Katz

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