1######################################################################## 2## 3## Copyright (C) 1995-2021 The Octave Project Developers 4## 5## See the file COPYRIGHT.md in the top-level directory of this 6## distribution or <https://octave.org/copyright/>. 7## 8## This file is part of Octave. 9## 10## Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it 11## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 12## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 13## (at your option) any later version. 14## 15## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 16## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 17## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 18## GNU General Public License for more details. 19## 20## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 21## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see 22## <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 23## 24######################################################################## 25 26## -*- texinfo -*- 27## @deftypefn {} {} date () 28## Return the current date as a character string in the form DD-MMM-YYYY@. 29## 30## For example: 31## 32## @example 33## @group 34## date () 35## @result{} 20-Aug-1993 36## @end group 37## @end example 38## @seealso{now, clock, datestr, localtime} 39## @end deftypefn 40 41function retval = date () 42 43 if (nargin != 0) 44 print_usage (); 45 endif 46 47 retval = strftime ("%d-%b-%Y", localtime (time ())); 48 49endfunction 50 51 52%!assert (strcmp (date (), strftime ("%d-%b-%Y", localtime (time ())))) 53 54## Test input validation 55%!error date (1) 56