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scripts/time/date.m

changeset 10289: 4b124317dc38
parent:83a8781b529d
author: John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date: Tue Feb 09 20:58:55 2010 -0500 (43 minutes ago)
permissions: -rw-r--r--
description: base_properties::set_children: account for hidden children
1## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008
2## John W. Eaton
3##
4## This file is part of Octave.
5##
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19
20## -*- texinfo -*-
21## @deftypefn {Function File} {} date ()
22## Return the date as a character string in the form DD-MMM-YY. For
23## example,
24##
25## @example
26## @group
27## date ()
28## @result{} "20-Aug-93"
29## @end group
30## @end example
31## @end deftypefn
32
33## Author: jwe
34
35function retval = date ()
36
37 retval = strftime ("%d-%b-%Y", localtime (time ()));
38
39endfunction
40
41%!assert(strcmp (date (), strftime ("%d-%b-%Y", localtime (time ()))));
42