Convert Datetime to UTC

How to convert datetime('today') into utc format. Preferably [YYYY MM DD 12 0 0].

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Try this:

T = datetime('now', 'Format','yyyy MM dd HH mm ss', 'TimeZone','local')   % Local Time Zone
T.TimeZone = 'Z'                                                          % Convert To UTC

producing:

T = 

  datetime

   2020 06 23 18 19 09


T = 

  datetime

   2020 06 24 00 19 09

.

[Nathan Jalal]

Thank you very much! Is there anyway to make sure the comes in [YYYY MM dd 12 0 0]? I need the hour, minute, and seconds to be those values exactly.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!

I thought that was just a formatting example.

I’m still not certain what you want.

Try this:

T = datetime('now', 'Format','yyyy MM dd 12 0 0', 'TimeZone','local')       % Local Time Zone
T.TimeZone = 'Z'                                                            % Convert To UTC

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/datetime.dateshift.html

dateshift to start of hour or day.

If you need "noon" then dateshift to start of day and then add hours(12)