dates with yy

Hi,

I have a cell array of dates that have this format: '08/28/01' '03/01/97' etc.. How can I convert them to a double matlab number date? where 08/28/01 refers to the 28th of august 2001 and 03/01/97 refers ti the first of march 1997

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

datenum('08/28/01')

[Oleg Komarov]

I usually always write the format (since I am european):

datenum('08/09/01','mm/dd/yy')

[Matt Fig]

This is probably not a bad practice to use in general. Thanks Oleg!