getdate

get date and time information

Calling Sequence

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

Arguments

:dt an integer vector with 10 entries (see below) : :x an integer containing a date coded in second from 1 Jan 1970 :

Description

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) Please note that the return value contains the leap seconds.

: :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.

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Examples

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

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

See Also

• date Current date as date string
• timer cpu time