addtodate creates too many milliseconds

I wanted to create a vector of all milliseconds in a day, so I wrote

0:addtodate(0,1,'millisecond'):(1-addtodate(0,1,'millisecond'));

which resulted in a vector with 86767016 elements, instead of the expected 24*60*60*1000 = 86400000 ones.

The same with seconds worked just fine.

I assume this is due to some roundoff error, and of course I could just write (0:86400000-1)/86400000, but I was wondering if this should be considered a bug.

Also was wondering what would be the better approach in the future when adding several milliseconds - I can think of three options:

addtodate(0,1,'millisecond') + addtodate(0,1,'millisecond');
2*addtodate(0,1,'millisecond');
2/86400000;

(The last one giving a different result than the first two)

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Use linspace

a=linspace(0,1-addtodate(0,1,'millisecond'),86400000);

[Steven Lord]

Or colon:

msPerDay = milliseconds(days(1));
y = milliseconds(0:1:msPerDay-1);

[d_moan]

Hey guys, thanks for the quick responses, sorry for my belated one.

@Steven, looks like a great option, but unfortunately I can't use it due to my Matlab version. Also, had you opened it as a different answer instead of a comment I could've at least upvoted it.