convert dates in matlab

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Sana Ejaz
Sana Ejaz on 17 Jun 2019
Commented: Star Strider on 17 Jun 2019
Hi all,
Need urgent help. I have dates in excell in a format of 19800101(this is 1st jan 1980).
I want to convert them to datenum in matlab.I have attached the excell file with the date column.
I want to convert dates in this column to matlab dates of any format.I tried converting it using different functions but failed.
would someone be able to help?

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 17 Jun 2019
Try this:
D = xlsread('dates.xlsx');
Ds = num2str(D,'%d');
Dn = datenum(Ds, 'yyyymmdd');
Check = datevec(Dn) % Check Conversion (Delete Later)
The first five :
Check =
1986 1 2 0 0 0
1986 1 3 0 0 0
1986 1 6 0 0 0
1986 1 7 0 0 0
1986 1 8 0 0 0
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Sana Ejaz
Sana Ejaz on 17 Jun 2019
Thanks Alot it worked.
Star Strider
Star Strider on 17 Jun 2019
As always, my pleasure.

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