How to parse date/time text using different locale?

Hello every one,

I am using Matlab 2018b. I have one table as given below.

Date         Start        Stop  
    ____________    ________    ________

    '12July2004'    09:02:52    09:52:01
    '13July2004'    08:00:04    08:57:23
    '13July2004'    09:26:53    09:28:18
    '14July2004'    09:34:04    09:35:18
    '09July2005'    08:04:08    08:05:54
    '09July2005'    09:41:52    09:43:06
    '12July2007'    09:15:00    09:27:01
    '16July2007'    07:30:58    07:31:56
    '06July2008'    14:42:42    14:46:58
    '07June2010'    11:27:12    11:33:24
    '05July2011'    11:04:50    11:07:28
    '11July2011'    09:15:40    09:19:26
    '21July2011'    07:35:02    07:54:00
    '02July2012'    10:12:14    10:21:07
    '21June2013'    09:15:26    09:16:43
    '22June2013'    09:57:07    09:58:57
    '22June2013'    10:41:16    10:59:55
    '22June2013'    11:21:02    11:57:55
    '22June2013'    12:09:31    12:55:45
    '23June2013'    10:06:00    10:20:00
    '23June2013'    12:32:24    12:48:48
    '26July2013'    11:40:28    11:53:45
    '17July2015'    05:48:04    05:59:12
    '17July2015'    06:00:14    06:29:55
    '17July2015'    07:17:21    07:50:00

I want to get only date without year from the above table. I have used the command below,

dates=datetime((timedata.Date),'InputFormat','ddMMMMyyyy','Format','ddMMMM');

But i received an error message

Error using datetime (line 616)

Unable to parse date/time text using the format 'ddMMMMyyyy'. If the date/time text contain day, month, or time zone names in a language foreign to

the 'zh_CN' locale, those might not be recognized. You can specify a different locale using the 'Locale' parameter.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

[Peter Perkins]

Does the suggestion in the error message not solve this problem? It appears that you are trying to read timestamps with english month names on a machine set to chinese. Try adding 'Locale','en_US'.

Your post's title says "time zone", I don't think this has anything to do with time zones. It about language, i.e. locale.

[abdur rauf]

Dear Peter Perkins,

The problem is solved by changing the format and system locale from chinese to english (US).

Thanks

[Xiomara Escobar]

Hello, how do you changed it? because my laptop it's in spanish but matlab doesnt detect it, and it says me that oct is not valid.