clock should return whole numbers.

clock command results in:

clock

ans =

1.0e+003 *

    2.0120    0.0080    0.0260    0.0160    0.0590    0.0028

but i want answer in the form

[2012 8 26 16 59 2.848]

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See the command "format", such as

format long g

[Jan]

Explicitly: FORMAT does not change the clock format and there is not reason to change it. But the method to display a vector in the command window is affected by FORMAT. Another method, which is independent from the FORMAT setting:

fprintf('%.4g ', clock)