startat

Start a timer at a specified date and time.

📝Syntax

startat(t, firingTime)
startat(t, year, month, day)
startat(t, year, month, day, hour, minute, second)

📥Input Arguments

Parameter	Description
t	Timer object or timer object array.
firingTime	Start time as a serial date number, date vector, datetime value, character vector, or string scalar.
year, month, day, hour, minute, second	Date and time components. The hour, minute, and second inputs are optional.

📄Description

startat starts the timer at a future date and time. The start time must be in the future and no more than 25 days from the current time.

For a timer array, the start time can be scalar or can contain one start time for each timer in the array.

💡Examples

Start a timer approximately two seconds from now.

t = timer('TimerFcn', @(src, event) disp('future timer fired'));
startat(t, now() + 2 / 86400);
wait(t);
delete(t);

Use date and time components to schedule a timer.

t = timer('TimerFcn', @(src, event) disp('scheduled'));
v = datevec(now() + 2 / 86400);
startat(t, v(1), v(2), v(3), v(4), v(5), v(6));
wait(t);
delete(t);

🔗See Also

timer start wait

🕔Version History

Version	Description
2.0.0	initial version

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