From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 17 11:19:27 2006
Subject: Re: etime doc string patch
From: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>,         "'bug @ octave. org' mailing list" <bug@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:15:41 +0800

OK, when I get home, because I don't have my computer with me right now...

On 1/15/06, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sf dot net> wrote:
> William,
>
> Please post your changes to octave-forge, and I'll post my updates.
>
> I've added some tests, and did some other cleanup of datenum.
>
> I also extended the interface to return seconds as well as days
> because otherwise I was seeing etime errors of 1e-5 (which is not
> unreasonable given that day number is about 6 digits and seconds
> per day is another 5 digits).  In retrospect, I don't think this
> change was necessary.  Instead I can call datenum with Y-M-D h:m
> and add the difference in seconds to the returned value.
>
> - Paul
>

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William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno



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