Programming and Data Types

Dates and Times

MATLAB provides functions for time and date handling. These functions are in a directory called timefun in the MATLAB Toolbox.

Category	Function	Description
Current date and time	clock	Current date and time as date vector
	date	Current date as date string
	now	Current date and time as serial date number
Conversion	datenum	Convert to serial date number
	datestr	Convert to string representation of date
	datevec	Date components
Utility	calendar	Calendar
	datetick	Date formatted tick labels
	eomday	End of month
	weekday	Day of the week
Timing	cputime	CPU time in seconds
	etime	Elapsed time
	tic, toc	Stopwatch timer

String Evaluation

Date Formats