How do I convert this string to a date ?
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Hi everybody !
I'm trying to turn this string to a date (from a txt file): 2021-05-11T14:11:00Z to 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'.
I tried with datetime(ref_time(h, 1),'InputFormat', 'yyyy-MM-dd e HH:mm:ss e','Format','yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss') with an 'e' replacing the 'T' and 'Z' but id doesn't work...
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Asmit Singh
2021-5-26
Since you are trying to convert strings to date with literals like 'T' and 'Z', you may want to look at the "Date and Time from Text with Literal Characters" section in the documentation.
The below code converts the given string format to matlab datetime variable.
myDate = "2021-05-11T14:11:10Z"
datetime(myDate,'InputFormat','yyyy-MM-dd''T''HH:mm:ss''Z')
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Allen
2021-5-26
Asmit,
I just learned that the format for date strings can contain a text representation.
Thanks for sharing that approach.
Jules PASCO
2021-5-26
It works !
The only problem is that I can't turn this format into a datetime, it stays a string.
Do you know how to turn 'May' to its month number '05' ?
Thanks
Stephen23
2021-5-26
"The only problem is that I can't turn this format into a datetime, it stays a string."
The string you show in that screenshot does not match the format you described in your question.
Where did that string come from?
Asmit Singh
2021-5-26
I am not sure how did you reach to this point. But you can still typecast these strings to datetime objects.
datetime("04-May-2021 11:00:00")
Jules PASCO
2021-6-1
Jules PASCO
2021-6-1
When I try to go from 04-May-2021 11:00:00 to 04-05-2021 11:00:00, matlab returns this:
@Jules PASCO: Of course it will not work: does the "InputFormat" match the input data format? (hint: no)
This is what you are telling MATLAB (and us in your question) that your dates looks like:
'yyyy-MM-dd e HH:mm:ss e'
whereas this is (apparently) what your dates actually look like:
'04-May-2021 11:00:00'
Are they the same format? (hint: no)
"The only problem is that I can't turn this format into a datetime, it stays a string."
It works for me:
S = '04-May-2021 11:00:00';
T = datetime(S, 'InputFormat','dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss') % !!! DATETIME !!!
T.Format = 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss' % !!! Still DATETIME !!!
Did you specify the InputFormat to actually match the data you have?
Jules PASCO
2021-6-2
Ok! It works now!
To make the dates match the values, I imported my data files as arrays instead of vectors/matrices like before, but I have the impression that matlab differentiates arrays from matrices, which prevents me from doing the date conversion...
If I can't do it any other way I'd switch my array to matrix but the point of array is that it recognizes dates.
Try running a string replacement to remove "T" and "Z" from your string before reformatting to datetime.
str = "2021-05-11T14:11:00Z";
datetime(regexprep(str,["T","Z"],[" ",""]))
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The "T" is specified in ISO 8601, it would be a very unfortunate if DATETIME could not handle it:
The "Z" refers to the Zulu time zone:
and as such it conveys important information which cannot be disregarded:
S = '2021-05-11T14:11:00Z';
T = datetime(S,'InputFormat','yyyy-MM-dd''T''HH:mm:ssZ', 'TimeZone','UTC')
T.TimeZone = 'Asia/Shanghai'
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