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Re: datenum with fractional months


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: datenum with fractional months
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:35:15 -0400

On May 20, 2012, at 3:28 PM, David Bateman wrote:

> Looking at the bug #36482 it seems that the issue is that datetick is
> calling datenum with a fractional month, which is not currently allowed
> with Octave's datenum function. However the fix could either go into
> datetick or datenum. I suppose it would be best to follow what matlab
> does in this case. Could someone with access to matlab tell me what
> 
> datenum(2012,5.5)
> datenum(2012,5.5,15)
> 
> give?
> 
> Thanks
> David
> 

datenum (2012, 5.5)

Warning: Unless the first input argument is a date string, all subsequent
arguments will be ignored. 
> In datevec at 69
  In datenum at 118 

ans =

        2012

datenum (2012, 5.5, 15)

ans =

      735004

Ben


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