Function long2datenum

  Convert two Longs with date with format yyyymmdd and time 
  with format HHMM to Matlab datenum format.
 
  

CALL:

   taxis = long2datenum(taxisdatum, taxistime, timeunit)
 
  

INPUT:

   taxisdate: Vector of Long with format yyyymmdd.
   taxistime: Vector of Long with format HHMM.
   timeunit: 
 
  

OUTPUT:

   taxis: Vector with corresponding values in Matlab datenum format.
 
  

APPROACH:

   Using the Matlab 'rem' en 'round' operators Year, Month, Day, Hour and 
   minute are extracted, followed by a call to datenum to get the Matlab 
   datenum format of the specified dates.
  
  

EXAMPLE:

   taxis = long2datenum('20110327','1135');
   datestr(taxis)

ans =
19-Feb-0000 00:49:00
17-Feb-0000 00:49:00
18-Feb-0000 00:49:00
18-Feb-0000 00:49:00
17-Feb-0000 00:49:00
20-Feb-0000 00:49:00
19-Feb-0000 00:49:00
24-Feb-0000 00:49:00

See also:

datenum2long