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mjul2matlab

PURPOSE

MJUL2MATLAB Convert a Modified Julian date to a Matlab Serial Date

SYNOPSIS

function [ sdOut ] = mjul2matlab( mjul )

DESCRIPTION

MJUL2MATLAB Convert a Modified Julian date to a Matlab Serial Date
   Trust Mathworks to use their own date standard when perfectly good ones
   already existed :-) Still, they're at least easy to convert

CROSS-REFERENCE INFORMATION

This function calls:

This function is called by:

mjul2str Convert a modified Julian day to a Matlab datestr style string
mjul2str2 Convert a modified Julian day to a Matlab datestr style string

SOURCE CODE

0001 function [ sdOut ] = mjul2matlab( mjul )
0002 %MJUL2MATLAB Convert a Modified Julian date to a Matlab Serial Date
0003 %   Trust Mathworks to use their own date standard when perfectly good ones
0004 %   already existed :-) Still, they're at least easy to convert
0005 
0006 % Modified Julian epoch starts at [1858 11 17 0 0 0]. So datenum(that)
0007 % gives the value below.
0008 
0009 sdOut = mjul + 678942;
0010 
0011 end
0012