## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} date ()
## Return the current date as a character string in the form DD-MMM-YYYY@.
##
## For example:
##
## @example
## @group
## date ()
##      @result{} "20-Aug-1993"
## @end group
## @end example
## @seealso{now, clock, datestr, localtime}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function retval = date ()

  retval = strftime ("%d-%b-%Y", localtime (time ()));

endfunction

%!assert(strcmp (date (), strftime ("%d-%b-%Y", localtime (time ()))));