How can I set time for x-axis plot in standard year, month,

Please find the attached files I want to display time in form of 2017-04, 2017-07, etc. for x-axis. I have trying the following command but is not what I expected, The time reference since 1950-01-01T00: 00: 00Z. eg, 67 + 1950 = 2017

datetick ('x', 'yyyy-mm', 'keeplimits')

[Hiro Yoshino]

You should use the datetime vector for your x-axis.

This type is designed for "time" and "duration". If you didn't use it you would end up experiencing a lot of hassle and bustle.

https://jp.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/generate-sequence-of-dates-and-time.html

[Farshid Daryabor]

Dear Hiro,

I did follow your command, based on the starttime and endtime,

nc.time_coverage_start = ncchar(''2016-11-02T07:58:00Z'');

nc.time_coverage_end = ncchar(''2018-09-10T12:11:00Z'');

>> t1 = datetime(2016,11,02,07,0,0);

>> t2 = datetime(2018,09,10,12,0,0);

>> tx = t1:t2;

It doesn't work for ploting "pcolor(datenum(tx),-depth,temp);" because "tx(1*678)" is not same size of "depth(143*263)" and "temp(143*263)"

>> pcolor(datenum(tx),-depth,temp);

Error using pcolor (line 59)

Matrix dimensions must agree.

So the only way is to extract the time (in number) from netcdf file which is same size with depth and temp and plot

>> size(time)

1*263

>> size(depth)

143*263

>> size(temp)

143*263

>> pcolor(tx,-depth,temp);

>> datetick('x', 'yyyy-mm', 'keepticks')

[Farshid Daryabor]

please find attached time, I really appreciate any suggestion.

Answer 1

[Peter Perkins]

I have no idea what that mat file is intended to contain. It's one double vector.

In any case, don't use datetick. Just use datetime plotting:

>> t = datetime(2020,1,1:100:1000);
>> y = 1:20;
>> pcolor(t,y,rand(length(y),length(t)))

Normally, you could set the datetime format to what you need, but your case is ... unusual. You'll need to make the tick labels by hand. Get the tick locations, get the offset from 1950 in years and months, and build the labels.

>> ax = gca;
>> t0 = datetime(1950,1,1);
>> ticks = ax.XTick;
>> [y,m] = split(between(t0,ticks),["years","months"])
y =
    70    70    71    71    72
m =
     0     6     0     6     0
>> xlabs = compose("%04d-%02d",[y',m'])
xlabs = 
  5×1 string array
    "0070-00"
    "0070-06"
    "0071-00"
    "0071-06"
    "0072-00"
>> ax.XTickLabel = xlabs;