How can I change the date format of a string containing dates, in Matlab?

Question

Is there any way to change the date format in Matlab without first converting to a number?

Here is a pseducode example of what I mean:

timeString = '23/04/2016';
newFormat1 = 'yy-mm-dd';
myPseudoFun(timeString, newFormat1)

ans =

16-04-23


newFormat2 = 'dd mmm yyyy';
myPseudoFun(timeString, newFormat2)

ans =

23 Apr 2016

All help is much appreciated!

What's the problem with datestr(datenum(timeString, oldFormat), newFormat)? That's pretty much what any implementation of myPseudoFun would be doing... — sebastian
– sebastian, Commented May 19, 2016 at 13:35

Phil Goddard · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-19 13:23:29Z

1

Use the datetime datatype: (Note the use of capital M's for month. Lower case m is for minutes.)

>> timeString = datetime('23/04/2016','InputFormat','dd/MM/yyyy')
timeString = 
   23-Apr-2016
>> timeString.Format = 'yy-MM-dd'
timeString = 
   16-04-23
>> timeString.Format = 'dd MMM yyyy'
timeString = 
   23 Apr 2016

answered May 19, 2016 at 13:23

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2 Comments

sco1 Over a year ago

Worth noting that this data type was introduced in R2014b

jkazan Over a year ago

Thanks @Phil Goddard. Unfortunately, this is too time consuming =/

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