Remove time from datetime

I would like to remove the time from a datetime element, without using the .Format = 'dd-MMM-yyy', as this only chages the display format but the time component is still present in the element.

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Use timeofday to create a duration array containing the time since midnight for each of the datetime arrays.

rightNow = datetime('now')

rightNow = datetime
   21-Jan-2021 15:35:16

timeSinceMidnight = timeofday(rightNow)

timeSinceMidnight = duration
   15:35:16

And since I'm guessing you may be trying to "split" the datetime:

todaysDate1 = dateshift(rightNow, 'start', 'day') % or

todaysDate1 = datetime
   21-Jan-2021

todaysDate2 = rightNow - timeSinceMidnight

todaysDate2 = datetime
   21-Jan-2021

[vidit kedia]

Thanks a lot Steven. This works perfectly.