Adding date and time on x axes in a plot

Good morning,

is it possible to create a plot on Matlab, inserting on the x-axis both the date and time coming from two different columns of a table, and on the y-axis another variable?

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

There are (at least) two options, depending on what the dates and time are, specifically with respect to the type of arrays they are.

Using datetime arrays:

dates = repmat(datetime([2021 04 08]),12,1);
times = datetime('00:00:00','Format','HH:mm:ss')+hours(0:11).';
datestimes = dates + timeofday(times);

figure
plot(datestimes, sin(0:numel(datestimes)-1)*2*pi/numel(datestimes))
grid

Or, using essentially the same data (for comparison) using datenum arrays:

dndates = datenum(dates);
dntimes = datenum(times);
dndatestimes = fix(dndates) + rem(dntimes,1);

figure
plot(dndatestimes, sin(0:numel(datestimes)-1)*2*pi/numel(datestimes))
grid
set(gca, 'XTick',dndatestimes)
datetick('x', 'yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM:SS', 'keepticks')

Extracting the original datetime variables from a table array is straightforward, so I left that part out.