Programming

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
  

Output Formats

Function Summary

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