day

Day of month

Syntax

DayMonth = day(Date)

DayMonth = day(___,F)

Description

DayMonth = day(Date) returns the day of the month given a serial date number or date character vector.

DayMonth = day(___,F) returns the day of the month, given a serial date number, or character vector and an optional argument, F, defining the date format for Date.

Examples

Determine the Day of the Month for Various Date Formats

Find the day of the month using a serial date number.

DayMonth = day(730544)

DayMonth = 28

Find the day of the month using a date character vector.

DayMonth = day('2/28/00')

DayMonth = 28

Find the day of the month using a date character vector with an optional argument F for a country-specific date format.

DayMonth = day('28/02/00','dd/mm/yyyy')

DayMonth = 28

Input Arguments

Date — Date to determine day of month

serial date number | date character vector | cell array of date character vectors

Date to determine day of month, specified as a serial date number, date character vector, or cell array of date character vectors.

All the date character vectors in Date must have same date character vector format. For more information on supported date character vector formats, see datestr.

Example: DayMonth = day({'2/28/00','3/10/06'})

Data Types: single | double | char | cell

F — Country-specific date format

character vector designating date format

Country-specific date format, specified as a character vector to designate the date format for the input argument Date. For more information on supported date character vector format symbols, see datestr. Note, formats with 'Q' are not accepted.

Example: DayMonth = day('28/02/00','dd/mm/yyyy')

Data Types: char

Output Arguments

DayMonth — Day of the month

nonnegative integer

Day of the month, returned as a nonnegative integer, given a serial date number, or date character vector.