from cell to date

I have a cell variable 201624x1 with values for date from '01/01/1994 01' until '01/01/1994 01' How do I convert these into Matlab dates

Thanks

[Jan]

It depends on what "from '01/01/1994 01' to '01/01/1994 01'" means. Why are the two strings equal and what is the trailing "01"?

[Johannes Deelstra]

sorry this was wrong. the time series starts at 01/01/1994 01 in which the 01 is 1 o' clock and ends at 31/12/2016 23 in which 23 is the 24 hrs midnight

[per isakson]

• See Represent Dates and Times in MATLAB
• See Convert Between Datetime Arrays, Numbers, and Text
• What do you mean by "Matlab dates" ? An array of serial date numbers or a datetime array.
• Either 00 through 23 or 01 through 24. I prefer the former because 24 will automatically be converted to 00 of the following day.

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

datetime(yourcellarray, 'InputFormat', 'dd/MM/yyyy HH')

Answer 2

[Anushi1998]

Use strfun and datetime functions for conversion

[Guillaume]

You probably mean cellfun. There is no strfun in base matlab. In any case, datetime can directly operate on a cell array so cellfun would not even be needed.