# clock

## Purpose

Get the current date and time.

## Synopsis

    c = clock

## Description

`clock` returns a six-element row vector `c` containing the current time and date in decimal form:

    [year month day hour minute seconds]

The first five elements are integers. The `seconds` element is accurate to several digits beyond the decimal point.

## Examples

Rounding to the nearest second results in an integer display:

    fix(clock)

    ans =
        1994    8    4    10    20    32

This represents August 4, 1994, 10:20:32.

## See Also

`date`, `etime`, `tic`, `toc`

(c) Copyright 1994 by The MathWorks, Inc.