TIMESTAMP
Print a Timestamp

TIMESTAMP is a MATLAB library which prints the current YMDHMS date as a timestamp.

This is useful when documenting the run of a program. By including a timestamp, the output of the program will always contain a clear indication of when it was created. Other indicators, such as the file timestamp, may be misleading or subject to unintentional modification.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TIMESTAMP is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a JAVA version and a Mathematica version and a MATLAB version and a PYTHON version.

Related Data and Programs:

TIC_TOC, MATLAB programs which demonstrate some features of MATLAB's tic and toc functions for wallclock timing.

TIMER, a MATLAB program which shows how to compute the elapsed CPU time inside a program.

WTIME, a MATLAB library which returns a reading of the wall clock time in seconds.

Source Code:

• timestamp.m is a script which prints a timestamp;
• timestring.m is a function which returns the timestamp in a string;

Examples and Tests:

• timestamp_test.m demonstrates the use of the routines;
• timestamp_test_output.txt the output file;

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