## Copyright (C) 2008 Bill Denney <bill@denney.ws>
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
## version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
## details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {s =} second (Date)
##
## Returns the second from a serial date number or a date string.
##
## @seealso{date, datevec, now, hour, minute}
## @end deftypefn

function t = second (dates)

  t = datevec (dates);
  t = t (:,6);

endfunction

