MATLAB: How to add a day on a datestr equation

datestr

I am having trouble understanding the serial number concept of date commands.
I want to sum five days on the command datestr(now)
I am proceding the following way
 x = datestr(now,1)
 ans =
 27-Sep-2012
I want to add up five days (y = 7 days) so that x + y =
 2-Oct-2012
Can you please help?

Best Answer

Another option is addtodate.
For example:
x = datestr(now,1)
y = 5;
z = addtodate(datenum(x), y, 'day');
zs = datestr(z,1)
gives:
x =
27-Sep-2012
zs =
02-Oct-2012
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