Add one year to date

Hi all,

Assume we have a date character='2022-01-05". What is the simplest way to add one year to that?

Answer 1

[Bora Eryilmaz]

You can use the datetime and years commands to do what you want:

date = '2022-01-05';
d = datetime(date)

d = datetime
   05-Jan-2022

d1 = d + years(1)

d1 = datetime
   05-Jan-2023 05:49:12

string(d1)

ans = "05-Jan-2023 05:49:12"

[Behrooz Daneshian]

Thank you for your answer.

[Steven Lord]

In this case you probably want to use calyears (to add 1 calendar year) instead of years (which adds 365.2425 days.)

date = '2022-01-05';
d = datetime(date)

d = datetime
   05-Jan-2022

d1 = d + years(1)

d1 = datetime
   05-Jan-2023 05:49:12

d2 = d + calyears(1)

d2 = datetime
   05-Jan-2023

daysPerYearDuration = days(years(1))

daysPerYearDuration = 365.2425