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mjuliandate

Modified Julian date calculator

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    Syntax

    mjd = mjuliandate(datetime)
    mjd = mjuliandate(dateVector)
    mjd = mjuliandate(dateCharacterVector,format)
    mjd = mjuliandate(year,month,day,'Action'=value)
    mjd = mjuliandate([year,month,day],'Action'=value)
    mjd = mjuliandate(year,month,day,hour,minute,second,'Action'=value)
    mjd = mjuliandate([year,month,day,hour,minute,second],'Action'=value)

    Description

    mjd = mjuliandate(datetime) converts one or more datetime arrays to modified Julian date, mjd. Modified Julian dates begin at midnight rather than noon, and the first two digits of its corresponding Julian date are removed.

    mjd = mjuliandate(dateVector) converts one or more date vectors, dateVector, to modified Julian date, mjd.

    mjd = mjuliandate(dateCharacterVector,format) converts one or more date character vectors, dateCharacterVector, to modified Julian date, mjd, using format format.

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    mjd = mjuliandate(year,month,day,'Action'=value) and mjd = mjuliandate([year,month,day],'Action'=value) return the modified Julian date for corresponding elements of the year,month,day arrays.

    mjd = mjuliandate(year,month,day,hour,minute,second,'Action'=value) and mjd = mjuliandate([year,month,day,hour,minute,second],'Action'=value) return the modified Julian date for corresponding elements of the year,month,day,hour,minute,second arrays. Specify the six arguments as 1-D arrays of the same length or scalar values.

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    Examples

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    Open Live Script

    This example shows how to calculate the modified Julian date for October 10, 2004, at 12:21:00 p.m.

    mjd = mjuliandate(2004,10,10,12,21,0)
    mjd = 
5.3289e+04
    Open Live Script

    This example shows how to calculate the modified Julian date for February 4, 2016 from datetime array.

    dt = datetime('04-02-2016','InputFormat','dd-MM-yyyy')
    dt = datetime
   04-Feb-2016


    jd = mjuliandate(dt)
    jd = 
57422
    Open Live Script

    This example shows how to calculate the modified Julian date for December 19, 2006.

    mjd = mjuliandate(2006,12,19)
    mjd = 
54088
    Open Live Script

    This example shows how to calculate the modified Julian date for May 24, 2005.

    mjd = mjuliandate('24-May-2005','dd-mmm-yyyy')
    mjd = 
53514

    Input Arguments

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    datetime array, specified as an m-by-1 array or 1-by-m array.

    Full or partial date vector, specified as an m-by-6 or m-by-3 matrix containing m full or partial date vectors, respectively:

    • Full date vector — Contains six elements specifying the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second

    • Partial date vector — Contains three elements specifying the year, month, and day

    Data Types: double

    Date character vector, specified as a character array, where each row corresponds to one date, or a 1-D array cell array of character vectors.

    Data Types: char | string

    Date format, specified as a character vector, string scalar, or integer. All dates in dateCharacterVector must have the same format and use the same date format symbols as the datenum function.

    mjuliandate does not accept formats containing the letter Q.

    If the format does not contain enough information to compute a date number, then:

    • Hours, minutes, and seconds default to 0.

    • Days default to 1.

    • Months default to January.

    • Years default to the current year.

    Data Types: char | string

    Year, specified as a positive scalar or 1-D array.

    Dependencies

    Depending on the syntax, specify year, month, and day or year, month, day, hour, minute, and second as 1-D arrays of the same length or scalar values.

    Data Types: char | string

    Month, specified as a positive or negative scalar or 1-D array.

    Dependencies

    Depending on the syntax, specify year, month, and day or year, month, day, hour, minute, and second as 1-D arrays of the same length or scalar values.

    Data Types: double

    Day, specified as a positive or negative scalar or 1-D array.

    Dependencies

    Depending on the syntax, specify year, month, and day or year, month, day, hour, minute, and second as 1-D arrays of the same length or scalar values.

    Data Types: double

    Hour, specified as a positive or negative scalar or 1-D array.

    Dependencies

    Depending on the syntax, specify year, month, and day or year, month, day, hour, minute, and second as 1-D arrays of the same length or scalar values.

    Data Types: double

    Minute, specified as a positive or negative scalar or 1-D array.

    Dependencies

    Depending on the syntax, specify year, month, and day or year, month, day, hour, minute, and second as 1-D arrays of the same length or scalar values.

    Data Types: double

    Second, specified as a positive or negative scalar or 1-D array.

    Dependencies

    Depending on the syntax, specify year, month, and day or year, month, day, hour, minute, and second as 1-D arrays of the same length or scalar values.

    Data Types: double

    Action for noninteger decimal date input for year, month, day, hour, and minute, specified as:

    • 'Error' — Displays error and total number of noninteger date values.

    • 'Warning' — Displays warning and total number of adjusted noninteger date values. The function adjusts the noninteger value to its integer equivalent before calculating the value.

    • 'None' — Does not display warning or error. The function adjusts the noninteger value to its integer equivalent before calculating the value.

    Data Types: char | string

    Output Arguments

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    Modified Julian date, returned as a row vector or column vector of modified Julian dates. Modified Julian dates are the number of days and fractions since midnight Universal Time on November 17, 1858.

    Dependencies

    The output format depends on the input format:

    Input Syntaxdy Format
    mjd = mjuliandate(dateVector)Row vector.
    mjd = mjuliandate(dateCharacterVector,format)Column vector.

    Limitations

    The calculation of modified Julian date does not take into account leap seconds.

    Version History

    Introduced in R2006b

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