representation is that of a datenum (a <code class="code">double</code>
containing the number of days since the Matlab epoch), but encapsulating it in an
object provides several benefits: friendly human-readable display, type safety,
automatic type conversion, and time zone support. In addition to the underlying
datenum array, a <code class="code">datetime</code> inclues an optional <code class="code">TimeZone</code> property
indicating what time zone the datetimes are in.
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