date

Current date as character vector

Syntax

c = date

Description

c = date returns the current date as a character vector in the format dd-MMM-yyyy.

This format represents the day of the month (dd) as a number, the month name (MMM) as its three-letter abbreviation, and the year (yyyy) as a number.

Examples

Return Current Date

To return the current date as a character vector, use the date function.

c = date

c = 
'01-Feb-2020'

Limitations

• date always returns the English abbreviation for the month name. The function does not take your system locale into account when determining the month name.

• MATLAB Online determines the current date from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) rather than from local time.

Tips

• As an alternative, use the datetime function to represent the current date.

  d = datetime('today')

  The datetime function takes your locale into account. Also, you can specify the format that a datetime array uses to represent its values.