Date stamp on plot

Hello.

I am having an issue where I am plotting data using datetime (converting from excel) and it is giving me the date stamp of the current day on the plot. I need to specify the date I want and stamp it onto the plots without interfering with the data. How can I do this?

Thanks!

[Scott MacKenzie]

So, you are reading a date and time from Excel into a datetime variable, but the datetime variable is for the current day not the day in the Excel file. It might help if you provide the data and your code.

[Brian Gregory]

Hi Scott. That is exactly right except the data conversion only has the time, not the date. I am unable to provide the data due to confidentiality reasons, but here is a graph that has the date. This is by no means the data I am trying to plot but it is a plot of the time from the datetime conversion with the date at the top. That is the date I would like to change.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The only way I can devise to delete the date is to create new y-tick labels and use them instead —

F = openfig('untitled.fig');
Ax = gca;                                                   % Axis Handle
yt = Ax.YTick;                                              % Y-Tick Values
ythm = compose("%02d:%02d", [hour(yt); minute(yt)].')       % Create New Ones
Ax.YTickLabel = ythm;                                       % Use Them For The New Y-Ticks
text(min(xlim), max(ylim), 'Your Date Here', 'Vert','bottom', 'Horiz','left')

The new plot —

EDIT — (10 Jun 2021 at 16:46)

Added text call to insert ‘Your Date Here’ date information.

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Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

plot(1:10, 1:10)
title("This plot was created at " + string(datetime('now')))