getdate

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getdate — get date and time information

dt=getdate()
x=getdate("s")
dt=getdate(x)

dt=getdate()

returns the current date in format given below:

dt(1): The year as a number (with the century) between 0000 and 9999.
dt(2): The month of the year as a number between 01 and 12.
dt(3): The ISO 8601 week number as a number between 01 and 53.
dt(4): The Julian day of the year as a number between 001 and 366.
dt(5): Specifies the weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Sunday.
dt(6): The day of the month as a number between 01 and 31.
dt(7): The hour of the day is output as a number between 00 and 23.
dt(8): The minute is output as a number between 00 and 59.
dt(9): The second is output as a number between 00 and 59.
dt(10): The millisecond is output as a number between 000 and 999.

x=getdate("s")

returns a scalar with the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970, 00:00 UTC (Unix Time Convention)

dt=getdate(x)

formats the date given by x (number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970, 00:00 UTC) in format given above. In this case dt(10) is always equal to 0.


w=getdate()
mprintf("Year:%d,Month:%d,Day:%d",w(1),w(2),w(6));

x=getdate("s")
getdate(x)

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