Scilab Function

getdate - get date and time information

### Calling Sequence

  `dt=getdate()`
  `x=getdate('s')`
  `dt=getdate(x)`

### Parameters

- `dt` : an integer vector with 8 entries (see below)
- `x` : an integer containing a date coded in second from 1 Jan 1970

### Description

- dt =getdate() returns the current date in format given below:
- dt(1) : The year as a number (with the century) between 0000 and 9999.
- dt(2) : The month of the year as a number between 01 and 12.
- dt(3) : The ISO 8601 week number as a number between 01 and 53.
- dt(4) : The Julian day of the year as a number between 001 and 366.
- dt(5) : Specifies the weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Sunday.
- dt(6) : The day of the month as a number between 01 and 31.
- dt(7) : The hour of the day as a number between 00 and 23.
- dt(8) : The minute as a number between 00 and 59.
- dt(9) : The second is output as a number between 00 and 59.
- x =getdate('s'), returns a scalar with the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970, 00:00 UTC (unix time convention)
- dt =getdate(x) ,format the date given by x (number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970, 00:00 UTC) in format given above:

### Examples

    w=getdate()
    mprintf("Year:%d,Month:%d,Day:%d",w(1),w(2),w(6));

    x=getdate('s')
    getdate(x)

### See Also

`date` `timer`