{"id":2620,"date":"2016-08-30T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2017-05-04T20:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:26:25","slug":"modifying-a-script-to-track-a-datetime-duration-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/08\/30\/modifying-a-script-to-track-a-datetime-duration-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Modifying a Script to Track a datetime Duration Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m just making a small modification to an existing script to store a variable with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/30\/savevalue-function-for-tracking-metrics-over-time-part-1-matlab-test-script\/\">saveValue function<\/a> I developed a while ago. The variable is of type duration, part of the recently added set of datetime functions.<\/p>\n<p>Features used in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/datetime.html\">datetime <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/duration.html\">duration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/tables.html\">tables<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"5406261337001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/08\/30\/modifying-a-script-to-track-a-datetime-duration-value\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/dc6ecdb7-7d96-44ab-a3ef-eac4f362e54b\/d4077222-c202-4c16-a577-86a4e97ada1f\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">15:31<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m just making a small modification to an existing script to store a variable with the saveValue function I developed a while ago. The variable is of type duration, part of the recently&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/08\/30\/modifying-a-script-to-track-a-datetime-duration-value\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}