Datetime shows month name and not number

Hello,

I want to find a specific datetime in my vector full of date time in the format of (10-09-2018 00:00:00) days-month-year hour-minute-second

I want to find this time:

datetime('10-09-2018 00:00:00','InputFormat','dd-MM-uuuu HH:mm:ss')

But matlab assume the 09 to be september and I need to be 09, because my vector has numbers for the months and not the short name

ans = 
  datetime
   10-Sep-2018 00:00:00

Thanks for your time

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

Change InputFormat to Format.

[Guillaume]

Not really!

'InputFormat' specify the format of the input string, so is required for matlab to decode that string properly. It is independent of the 'Format' property which controls how the datetime is displayed.

If you want the display format to match the input format, you either have the specify it twice:

datetime('10-09-2018 00:00:00', 'InputFormat', 'dd-MM-uuuu HH:mm:ss', 'Format', 'dd-MM-uuuu HH:mm:ss')

A bit of a chore (particularly if you decide to change the format)!, so there's an easier way:

datetime('10-09-2018 00:00:00','InputFormat','dd-MM-uuuu HH:mm:ss', 'Format', 'preserveinput')

[madhan ravi]

Thank you, Guillaume!