How do I read in an Excel Spreadsheet with these types of numbers?

I need to read in an excel spreadsheet:

       xlsread('fileID');

Each row of the spreadsheet looks like this:

        1  49:33.2  10:49:32  0.20645  0.14044

Once read in it is displayed like this:

        1  0.2844  0.451  0.20645  0.14044

How can I get it to read in columns two and three the way it appears in excel?

Answer 1

[John Petersen]

I get a different answer

    1.0000    0.0344    0.4511    0.2064    0.1404

What matlab appears to be doing is interpreting the columns with colons as time with units in number of days. The first number 49:33 is interpreted as 49min 33s and converts to about 0.0344days The second time 10hrs, 49min, 32 sec, is about 0.45days. You'll just have to convert them back to time format in matlab.