R2013b MATLAB:dat​enum:Conve​rtDateStri​ng DATENUM failed.

Hello community,

following issue: Running a precompiled Matlab application (normalizing measured data) in R2013b on measured data throws:

MATLAB:datenum:ConvertDateString DATENUM failed.

at times.

Since i believe, the potentially related issue "http://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/310427" does not apply, i started scrutinizing the measured files.

It turned out the application reads date information from the headers of the measured file, and this date information happens to be in german dateformat.

Initial idea: the Matlab to expect german format for dates.

I found the official recommendations (<http://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/setting-locale-on-macintosh-platforms.html>) for adjusting the locale for Matlab.

Accordingly on host OS (OSX 10.9.5) switched all the relevant config to german, doublechecked locale on terminal, yes even rebooted, but still face the same error.

Is there any means to directly determine the Matlab environment's current config, related to format conventions?

Or should i start digging somewhere else?

Best