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Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Data Type Conversion

• Operators and Special Characters

• Bit-Wise Operations

• Logical Operations

• Relational Operations

• Set Operations

• Date and Time Operations

• Programming in MATLAB

• Object-Oriented Programming

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Release Notes

now - Current date and time

Syntax

t = now

Description

t = now returns the current date and time as a serial date number. To return the time only, use rem(now,1). To return the date only, use floor(now).

Examples

t1 = now, t2 = rem(now,1)

t1 =

   7.2908e+05


t2 =

    0.4013

See Also

clock | date | datenum

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