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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 1986

matlab 2014 date functions not found

Trying to help my daughter with matlab 2014 basic. (I have never used it). In the command window I tried to use the month() functions in various ways that I read in the documentation but matlab returns "month not found" I tried various datetime functions that appear to be in matlab core and they all failed. Is there a project library that needs to be added? Do these functions work in the command line?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3057

Answers (2)

Andrew Janke
Andrew Janke

Reputation: 23908

If you're using Matlab R2014b, there is a new datetime datatype in the core Matlab language. It supports access to calendar fields like month, year, and day, and is supposedly the main date representation in Matlab going forward. You can use this without having to install the Financial Toolbox.

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/date-and-time-operations.html

Note that now() and today() still return datenums; you need to do datetime('now') or datetime('today') to get equivalent datetime values.

All normal Matlab functions and classes can be used from the command line, and anything run on the command line can be called in a script or function. It's the exact same language for both.

Upvotes: 3

Benoit_11
Benoit_11

Reputation: 13945

Ok so to follow up on my comment:

1) You need the Financial Toolbox to have access to the 'month' function. In order to know what is installed on your computer, type ver in the Command Window.

2) MATLAB has some builtin functions to play around with dates and times. For example, date returns a string containing the current dat in the day-month-year format and calendar returns an array of double from which you can extract specific dates.

Upvotes: 2

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