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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- 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 ()))));
+