Question

I need to extract the dates from a set of data s.

I use the command s(x).comm.date where x can be changed for each person however it is returning the serial date number as 7.3244e+005 which just gives me the day but I need it to show much more detail something like this 732162.65994213.

I don’t know if the data I have is already saving it as the shorthand format but it’s a set of data from MIT and the help documentation shows it as the long hand format so I sincerely doubt this.

Yours,
MATLAB Newbie

Answer 1

Try typing the following help format or format long (for starters).

By default, Matlab displays 5 significant digits (calculations are done in appropriate floating-point precision, no matter how those variables are displayed). Refer to the documentation for different ways of displaying.