How to avoid dates being writen in scientific notation?

I made my dates using:

m(1,1) = str2num(datestr([2015,8,10,12,0,0],'yyyymmddhhMM'));

which writes date in scientific notation into m. Is there any way to avoid that? I want my dates to be as simple as 201508101200 in m.

[Walter Roberson]

Isn't this the same question as http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/233121-problem-writing-in-data-into-a-csv-using-fprintf ?

Answer 1

[Jeff E]

If you really want it as an integer:

m = uint64(str2num(datestr([2015,8,10,12,0,0],'yyyymmddhhMM')));

[Kian]

Thanks a lot. That resolved my issue. I still had to to a bit of a trick on my matrix. Actually, that cell where date is stored in is not the first cell in my matrix. It's in the second column. So if I start by filling in first column with some other values, it still writes my dates in scientific notation cause the matrix is going to be double. So, I first wrote in the 2nd column with dates through how you showed me to make the matrix a uint64 and then wrote in the first columns.

Thanks again.