From help-request at octave dot org Tue Apr  4 11:17:12 2006
Subject: Re: Matlab date and time functions
From: "Keith Goodman" <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
To: "Geordie McBain" <geordie dot mcbain at aeromech dot usyd dot edu dot au>
Cc: sdupree at speakeasy dot net, help@octave.org
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:15:27 -0700

On 4/3/06, Geordie McBain <geordie dot mcbain at aeromech dot usyd dot edu dot au> wrote:
> I believe datenum is in octave-forge rather than Octave proper, in which
> case you'll need to install octave-forge to use datenum; see
> http://octave.sf.net.  Installing octave-forge should also generally
> ease the transition from Matlab.

datenum is in Octave 2.9.X.

To use datenum in 2.1.71 without installing octave-forge just grab
datenum and datevec from the octave cvs

cvs -d :ext:anoncvs at www dot octave dot org:/cvs -z 9 checkout octave/scripts/time/

Or cut and paste from your web browser:

http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/octave/scripts/time/

But since you are porting code it is probably a good idea, as Geordie
suggested, to install octave-forge. It will help you to port code from
matlab.



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