Description: DateConvert: Simple but fast date conversion
DateConvert converts the DATESTR(0) format to a date vector or serial date number and backwards.
Matlab s DATENUM, DATEVEC and DATESTR accept a variety of inputs, but in consequence they are slow. If the input format is exactly known, the conversion can be much faster:
DATENUM( 17-Oct-2009 11:08:23 ): 2.97 sec
DateConvert( 17-Oct-2009 11:08:23 , number ): 0.039 sec
=> 1.3 (1000 loops, 1.5GHz Pentium-M, Matlab 7.7)
DateConvert does*not* validate the input date as Matlab s date functions:
DATEVEC( 32-Feb-2008 25:62:63 ) replies [2008 3 4 2 2 7],
DateConvert( 32-Feb-2008 25:61:67 , vector ) replies [2008 2 32 25 61 67] !
So DateConvert is nearly trivial, but optimized for speed. I needed it for sorting 200 000 time stamps and reduced the time from 217 to 11 sec.
Please run the unit-test TestDateVec to check validity and speed.
Tested: Matlab 6.5, 7.7, 7.8, WinXP, 32bit.
Pure Matlab code, so compat
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DateConvert.m
TestDateConvert.m
license.txt
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