MATLAB Programming Fundamentals - MathWorks

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“Write Locale-Independent Date and Time Code” on page 7-25

“Write Dates in Other Languages” on page 7-26

“Read Dates in Other Languages” on page 7-27

Write Locale-Independent Date and Time Code

Follow these best practices when sharing code that handles dates and time with

MATLAB® users in other locales. These practices ensure that the same code produces the

same output display and that output files containing dates and time are read correctly on

systems in different countries or with different language settings.

Create language-independent datetime values. That is, create datetime values that use

month numbers rather than month names, such as 01 instead of January. Avoid using day

of week names.

For example, do this:

t = datetime('today','Format','yyyy-MM-dd')

t = datetime

2019-04-13

instead of this:

t = datetime('today','Format','eeee, dd-MMM-yyyy')

t = datetime

Saturday, 13-Apr-2019

Display the hour using 24-hour clock notation rather than 12-hour clock notation. Use the

'HH' identifiers when specifying the display format for datetime values.

For example, do this:

t = datetime('now','Format','HH:mm')

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