date to number

Hi How to change the date with this format to number: 09-08-01 00:56:33

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

09-08-01 ... any of those could be a year, month, or day. You need to clarify which order the components are in.

[bahare]

09:2009

08: August

01: day

[Jan]

What is the wanted number exactly? A datevec or a datenum?

Answer 1

[sunil anandatheertha]

Try using this for general purposes: a=clock;a(1),a(2),a(3),a(4),a(5),a(6)

Assuming the 09-08-01 00:56:33 to be, 
day-month-year  hrs:mins:secs, you can try using the following

a = '09-08-01 00:56:33'
day = str2num(a(1:2))
month = str2num(a(4:5))
year = ...
 and so on. Hope this helped..