Financial Toolbox

Current Date and Time

The functions today and now return serial date numbers for the current date, and the current date and time, respectively.

• today
  
  ans =
        730693
  
  now
  
  ans =
  
        730693.48
  

The MATLAB function date returns a string for today's date.

• date
  
  ans =
  
  26-Jul-2000
  

Date Conversions

Determining Dates