How to preserve nanosecond precision in datetime calculations (for large numbers)
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Hi, I am working with datetime variables with nanosecond precision. I am trying to maintain this precision throughout the calculations, but I lose the precision because the precision of the numbers exceed double precision (for large numbers). For example, 1294871257.002060945 seconds has 3 additional digits more than double precision that I need to preserve in the calculations. I realized that I cannot use the vpa function on a datetime variable. Are there any suggestions on how to handle this? The example script below shows the loss of precision in the calculation by outputing the decimal portions of the original and final numbers.
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dt=1294871257.002060945; % nanosecond precision for a large number that exceeds double precision.
epoch = datetime(1980,1,6,'TimeZone','UTCLeapSeconds'); % define the epoch reference time in UTC (and has 0 seconds)
DtUTC = epoch + seconds(dt); % add the duration to the reference time
Time_vec=datevec(DtUTC); % converts final datetime value to a 6-element vector (Y,M,D,H,M,S)
sprintf('%.9f',dt-floor(dt)) % decimal part of original number of seconds
sprintf('%.9f',Time_vec(6)-floor(Time_vec(6))) % decimal part of calculated number of seconds
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Steven Lord
2021-11-11
Start off with the time as a symbolic object.
dt=sym('1294871257.002060945');
If you don't and just start with dt as a double you've already lost.
eps(double(dt))
fprintf('%0.16f', double(dt))
Now split dt into the integer part and the fractional part symbolically.
frac = dt - floor(dt);
whole = dt - frac;
fprintf('%0.16f', double(frac))
Finally add whole and frac separately to your epoch.
epoch = datetime(1980,1,6,'TimeZone','UTCLeapSeconds');
DtUTC = epoch + seconds(double(whole)) + seconds(double(frac));
DtUTC.Format = 'uuuu-MM-dd''T''HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSSSS''Z'''
Time_vec=datevec(DtUTC);
sprintf('%.9f',dt-floor(dt))
sprintf('%.9f',Time_vec(6)-floor(Time_vec(6)))
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Peter Perkins
2021-11-30
Just for the record, this error
The date format for UTCLeapSeconds datetimes must be 'uuuu-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z''
was one of the warts that dpb refers to that was removed in R2021b. Formats for UTCLeapSeconds must still be that ISO form, but may now have 0 to 9 fractiona seconds digits.
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dpb
2021-11-11
>> t='1294871257.002060945'; % treat long value as string
>> dsec=seconds(str2double(extractBefore(t,'.'))) + ...
seconds(str2double(extractAfter(t,strfind(t,'.')-1))); % combine integer/fractional parts
>> dsec.Format='dd:hh:mm:ss.SSSSSSSSS' % format to show nsec resolution
dsec =
duration
14986:22:27:37.002061035
>>
This is the most straightforward workaround I can think of within the limittions of the (somewhat hampered) durations class which has limited input options for formatting input and the helper functions such as seconds that are only base numeric classes aware.
The datetime class is still pretty young; it has much left to be worked out in order to make it fully functional over niche usage such as yours.
You'll probably have to build a wrapper class of functions to hide all the internal machinations required; the above just illustrates that if you can break the whole number of seconds precision required into pieces that are each within the precision of a double that the duration object itself can deal with them to that precision -- at least storing an input number. I've not tested about rounding when try to do arithmetic with the result.
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Steven Lord
2021-11-12
This:
dt=sym(1294871257.002060945);
evaluates 1294871257.002060945 in double precision and converts the resulting double into symbolic. As I stated in my answer the first of those steps has already caused problems for your approach.
format longg
dt = 1294871257.002060945
% Spacing between dt and the next largest *representable* double
eps(dt)
% This is the closest representable double to the number you entered
fprintf('%0.16f', dt)
This:
dt=sym('1294871257.002060945');
vpa(dt, 20)
doesn't go through double at all.
In some cases sym can "recognize" the floating-point result of an operation that should be of a particular form and compensate for roundoff error. See the description of the flag input argument to the sym function, specifically the row dealing with the (default) 'r' flag, for a list of recognized expressions. So as an example even though 1/3 is not exactly one third, it's close enough for sym. But your number doesn't fall into one of those recognized expression categories.
x = sym(1/3)
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