Programming and Data Types

Current Date and Time

The function date returns a string for today's date.

date

ans =

     02-Oct-1996

The function now returns the serial date number for the current date and time.

now

ans =

     729300.71

datestr(now)

ans =

     02-Oct-1996 16:56:16

datestr(floor(now))

ans = 

     02-Oct-1996

Date Formats

Obtaining User Input