Take date month year from serial date numbers data

Hi everyone. I have a time data in serial date numbers form including date, month, year, hour and minute. I want to take date, month, year from this data to create a vector. How can I do that? thank you very much in advance.

Answer 1

[KL]

if you have something like,

>> dt = datetime([2017 11 06 08 00 00])

dt = 

    datetime

     2017-11-06

>> res = [dt.Year dt.Month dt.Day]

res =

          2017          11           6

or you could use ymd, which is much easier,

>> [y,m,d] = ymd(dt)

y =

          2017

m =

      11

d =

       6

[Peter Perkins]

And the hms function is the other half of ymd. Also, the datevec function applied to a datetime array will return all six components as one numeric matrix.