how to set xticks and xline

I would like to set xticks and and xline in the figure but seems diffcult to set them

I have a data with 1 second every sample for 6 days so the number of samples is 6 days*24 hours*60 minutes*60 seconds = 518400

how to make x ticks at every 12 hours and xline every 24 hours? I use this code below to plot the figure

[minA,maxA] = bounds(Pc5); % The maximum and minimum values of aggregate data

plot(t,Pc1,'r',t,Pc2,'g',t,Pc3,'m',t,Pc4,'b',t,Pc5,'y',t,Pc6,'c',t,Pc7,'k',t,Pmain,'k');
xticks(linspace(43200,475200,6))
xticklabels({'Monday','Tuesday','Wendsday','Thursday','Friday', 'Saturday'}) % Label xtick at every 12 hours
xlim([-10000 518400])
ylim([minA,maxA+50])
ylabel('Active power (W)')
title('Weekly Patterns')
x=linspace(86400,475200,5); % Draw a vertical dashed line for each day
xline(x,'--k')
grid, grid minor

and show this figure which is not prefect for xticks and xline

[Rik]

Your problems seem to be originating from the way you define the x-postitions in your plot.

How did you determine the cause is with xticklabels and xline?

Determining the days based on the hardcoded sampling rates seems very fragile to me. Why not rescale the values in t to range between 0 and 6? That way you rescale your data to the days, instead of rescaling the days to fit your sampling rate.

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

If you have data that is time-based, why not plot the data using a datetime array then specify the ticks and tick labels using datetime values?

T = datetime('today');
d = T:hours(6):(T + days(4));
y = 1:length(d);
plot(d, y, 'o-')
xticks(d(1:4:end))
xline(d(3:4:end), '--k')
xline(T+(hours(12):hours(18):days(4)), 'c:', 'LineWidth', 4) % Make it wider so it is more visible