Timestamp on X axis from datetime
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Hello, I have made a plot already which looks like that:
X axis is a time of observation. It is a vector of [0, 5, 10, 15 ...]. I would like to use a timestemps as a X axis ticks. I have a variable ts, which is the timestamp of each sample. How should I change my X axis description using a plot browser to timestams. Format of my timestamps is 'dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss'
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Jorik
le 3 Déc 2018
Hi Maksym, if you convert your x vector to a datetime, you can simply plot the datetime vector against your values for the 3 lineplots and already get meaningful labels for the timestamps.
Example:
x = today + (0.5:0.01:0.6);
x_datetime = datetime(x, 'ConvertFrom', 'datenum');
plot(x_datetime, rand(size(x)))
As you can see, I start with simple datenum doubles, convert it to datetimes and if you zoom into the plot or use a different time-scale, the x-labels are automatically changed to show meaningful values and details.
If you need the specific format you mentioned, you can specify it with a line like this:
xtickformat('dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss')
All of this is possible since R2016b or do you need to use an older version of MATLAB?
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Laukik Avinash Kharche
le 21 Juin 2022
Hello,
I have a question regarding the answer you gave. I use it for a quite similar purpose as the questioner here. But when I use your code for getting x_datetime, The date I see there is 31-Dec--0001. I wonder how I could put the correct date there ? I have the Time stamp in decimals(only for time and not the date) and they get converted to DD-MMM--YYYY hh:mm:ss after using the date time function.
Thank you,
Laukik.
Jorik
le 21 Juin 2022
Modifié(e) : Jorik
le 21 Juin 2022
You either need to choose a date (I would only do this is you knew which day the data is referring to) or use a different datatype. You could e.g. use duration instead of datetime to leverage the smart label capabilities without having actual dates.
E.g. if you want to plot a sine for t = 0-60 seconds duration:
t = 0:0.1:60; % seconds
f = 0.05; % freq
v = sin(2*pi*f*t); % calculate the sin(2πft)
t_d = duration(seconds(t));
plot(t_d, v) % plot t as duration against v
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