How can I create a linspace vector using date commands

I am trying to create a domain for a plot starting from datenum(now) to five days from today with a total of four days in between points.

I am proceding the following way

 b = datestr(datenum(now),1)
 a = datestr(datenum([0000 00 5]),1)
 c = datestr(datenum([0000 00 1]),1)
 x = linespace(datestr(b,[a + b],c))

I want MATLAB to output a vector of days starting from now (TODAY) and ending five days from TODAY with a total of four days in beetwen dates (n = 1; on linspace command).

Can you please help?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

My approach:

b = datestr(datenum(now),1)
for k1 = 1:6
    x(k1) = datenum(addtodate(datenum(b), k1-1, 'day'));
end
x
xs = datestr(x,1)

The x vector are the date numbers to use as your 'XTick' locations. From there, you can either use 'XTick' and 'XTickLabel' or datetick for your x-axis.

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

number_day=4 
v=datevec(now) 
out=datestr(datenum(v(1),v(2),v(3):v(3)+number_day,v(4),v(5),v(6)))

v(1) to incremante ..years

v(2) ...................... months

v(3) .......................days

v(4) ........................hours

v(5) ........................minutes

v(6) ........................secondes

Answer 3

[Andrei Bobrov]

out = datestr(now:now+number_day-1)