browse outlook email - format date

Hello everybody,

I am writing a code browsing my outlook emails in order to retrieve some information according to their ReceivedTime;

outlook = actxserver('outlook.Application');
mapi = outlook.GetNamespace('mapi');
INBOX = mapi.GetDefaultFolder(6);

count = INBOX.Items.Count;

xDates=zeros(count,1);
for k=1:count
    email = INBOX.Items.Item(k);
    xDates(k)=datenum(email.ReceivedTime,'dd.mm.yyyy HH:MM:SS');
end

The issue is that email.ReceivedTime gives 〲ㄮ⸲〲㠱〠㨸㐵〺1, the format seems to be not correct and its impossible to use it in Matlab.

However when I read my emails directly in Outlook the received time displays correctly.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Arnaud

[per isakson]

On my system (Win10,R2018b,Swedish localization) I get

>> email.ReceivedTime
ans =
    '2018-05-29 09:01:11'

[Arnaud Bitoun]

Yes, you got what expected. In my case (Win 10 Pro,R2016b, Switzerland localization) I get

>> email.ReceivedTime

ans =

〲ㄮ⸲〲㠱〠㨸㐵〺1

I guess it's just a problem of settings. Anyone has ever encountered a similar issue ?

thanks in advance,

Arnaud