timestamp

timestamp, a MATLAB code 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 MIT license

Languages:

timestamp is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version and an R version.

Related Data and Programs:

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

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

timestamp_test

wtime, a MATLAB code which returns a reading of the wall clock time in seconds.

Source Code:

• timestamp.m, prints a timestamp;
• timestring.m, returns a timestamp in a string;