How to cleanly display dates on X axis

I have an array of dates in yyyy-mm-dd HH:ii:ss format. I want to use this to display on X-axis label. I used following command

    set(gca, 'XTick',1:size(datetimebl,1), 'XTickLabel',datetimebl);
    xticklabel_rotate([],90);

But this causes x axis labels to go out of figure and overlap then I rotated x labels using xticklabel_rotate command as shown in image but still labels go out of figure. There are more labels than this and they go out of figure. This is bugging me for few days please help.

Array datetimebl =

* 14-Sep-2015 18:33:23
*     14-Sep-2015 18:38:22
*     14-Sep-2015 18:43:21
*     14-Sep-2015 18:48:20
*     14-Sep-2015 18:53:19
*     14-Sep-2015 18:58:18
*     14-Sep-2015 19:03:17
*     14-Sep-2015 19:08:16
*     14-Sep-2015 19:13:15
*     14-Sep-2015 19:18:14
*     14-Sep-2015 19:23:13
*     14-Sep-2015 19:28:12
*     14-Sep-2015 19:33:11
*     14-Sep-2015 19:38:10
*     14-Sep-2015 19:43:09
*     14-Sep-2015 19:48:08
*     14-Sep-2015 19:53:07

and so on.

Answer 1

[Thorsten]

You can try to reduce the FontSize

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

You will need to do at least one of:

• make your xtick further apart
• reduce you font size
• increase your axes size (which might require increasing the figure size)
• largely switch to annotation arrays that put text somewhere else and draw lines to the appropriate location
• largely switch to plotting individual points in some distinguishable arrangement and legend() the labels
• largely switch to using a data cursor to allow the user to probe the fine details of the dates