datestr problem with month

I have a variable T.Date with 5173x 1 datetime, '04/04/2018' '05/04/2018' etc...

when i use the code

 Date= datestr(T.Date,'dd/MM/yyyy');

or

 formatOut = 'dd/MM/yyyy'
 Date= datestr(T.Date, formatOut)

I get 5173 x 10 char '04/00/2018' and so on for all the dates. The month is 00 for every output.

why is this happening and what can I do to fix this?

[Stephen23]

What MATLAB version are you using?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

If T.Date really is a datetime array, then use string to convert it to a string array. Make sure that you have set the datetime's format property first:

T.Date.format = 'dd/MM/yyyy'
S = string(T.Date)

Or use cellstr:

C = cellstr(T.Date)

Or use char:

C = char(T.Date)

[Aedin McAleer]

This worked perfectly, thank you.

I use Matlab 2018a

Answer 2

[madhan ravi]

Use datetime

str='04/04/2018'
Date= datetime(str,'format','dd/MM/yyyy')