convert date time to number ?

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MUKESH KUMAR
MUKESH KUMAR on 4 Jul 2018
Commented: Aarti Dwivedi on 6 Jul 2018
I had excel sheet having date format dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss , So now I want to convert each value into number format. How can I do this?
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 4 Jul 2018
Which number format is it?
Does the spreadsheet have the values stored as text string or as excel date format?
Stephen23
Stephen23 on 4 Jul 2018
Edited: Stephen23 on 4 Jul 2018
Using datetime, datenum, or datevec, depending on your need. What have you tried so far?

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Aarti Dwivedi
Aarti Dwivedi on 4 Jul 2018
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/datenum.html Assuming that you have already read the values from the Excel sheet in different variables, the number you are looking for is "numd", it can be obtained using:
date_arr = datetime(yyyy,mm,dd,hh,mm,ss)
numd = datenum(date_arr)
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Peter Perkins
Peter Perkins on 5 Jul 2018
Unless you specifically need a datenum, this is almost certainly not the best choice. As Walter says, what number format do you need?
And in any case, in recent versions of MATLAB, you can read dates from Excel directly as datetimes, and it's likely that you do not need to convert them to a "number".
Aarti Dwivedi
Aarti Dwivedi on 6 Jul 2018
The OP wanted a "number", that's why I provided it. Although I agree with you that it is not the best choice, I put it with datetime as well as datenum so that it would be clear to a MATLAB novice and the OP the difference between the two.

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