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Generate Sequence of Dates and Time

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“Sequence of Datetime or Duration Values Between Endpoints with Step Size” on page 7-

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“Add Duration or Calendar Duration to Create Sequence of Dates” on page 7-19

“Specify Length and Endpoints of Date or Duration Sequence” on page 7-21

“Sequence of Datetime Values Using Calendar Rules” on page 7-22

Sequence of Datetime or Duration Values Between Endpoints

with Step Size

This example shows how to use the colon (:) operator to generate sequences of datetime

or duration values in the same way that you create regularly spaced numeric vectors.

Use Default Step Size

Create a sequence of datetime values starting from November 1, 2013 and ending on

November 5, 2013. The default step size is one calendar day.

t1 = datetime(2013,11,1,8,0,0);

t2 = datetime(2013,11,5,8,0,0);

t = t1:t2

t = 1x5 datetime array

Columns 1 through 3

01-Nov-2013 08:00:00 02-Nov-2013 08:00:00 03-Nov-2013 08:00:00

Columns 4 through 5

04-Nov-2013 08:00:00 05-Nov-2013 08:00:00

Specify Step Size

Specify a step size of 2 calendar days using the caldays function.

t = t1:caldays(2):t2

Generate Sequence of Dates and Time