## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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## usage: clock ()
##
## Return current date and time in vector with elements
##
##   [ year, month, day-of-month, hour, minute, second ]

## Author: jwe

function retval = clock ()

  tm = localtime (time ());

  retval = zeros (1, 6);

  retval(1) = tm.year + 1900;
  retval(2) = tm.mon + 1;
  retval(3) = tm.mday;
  retval(4) = tm.hour;
  retval(5) = tm.min;
  retval(6) = tm.sec + tm.usec / 1e6;

endfunction