Re: datenum

[Laurent Mazet]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:35:22 -0600
"Carine Simon" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using the function datenum written by Paul Kienzle (Copyright 2000)
> but I've got some trouble with it.
> Indeed, when I type datenum(2000,1,1), I get 730485 whereas with Matlab,
> I get 730486.
...

This problem has been solved in recent version of Octave-forge

$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.60 (i686-mandrake-linux-gnu).
...
octave:1> datenum(2000,1,1)
ans = 730486
octave:2> da=clock
da =

  2004.0000    12.0000    10.0000    17.0000     1.0000    17.9528

octave:3> DayOfYear=datenum(0,da(2),da(3))
DayOfYear = 345


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