datestr(now,'MMSSFFF')
ans =
5139451
datestr(now,'MMSSFFF')
ans =
5140057
UID=datestr(now,'MMSSFFF')
UID =
5214981
Unfortunatly other commands such as cputime or now don't return time in milliseconds, which is not so good.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Matlab: generate unique ID number
To generate a unique ID number for e.g. a temporary file or seed for random number generator current date/time in milliseconds can be used. I matlab the only command that gives time in milliseconds is datestr with FFF input e.g.
Unfortunatly other commands such as cputime or now don't return time in milliseconds, which is not so good.
Unfortunatly other commands such as cputime or now don't return time in milliseconds, which is not so good.
