Converting yymmddhhmm to mm/dd/yy hh:mm for Figure

I have a vector that has dates in the format of yymmddhhmm. When I create a time series contour plot, the dates show up as scientific numbers, but I want to display them as mm/dd/yy/ hh:mm.

[Jan]

Please post an example. It is not clear if your input is the string '0305231950' or the number 305231950.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Try

    str = '0305231950';
    sdn = datenum( str, 'yymmddHHMM' );
    datestr( sdn, 'mm/dd/yy/ HH:MM' )

and see plot data instead of number on the xaxis

And with a cell array of strings

    str = {'0305231950','0305231951','0305231952'};
    sdn = datenum( str, 'yymmddHHMM' );
    datestr( sdn, 'mm/dd/yy/ HH:MM' )

which outputs

    ans =
    05/23/03/ 19:50
    05/23/03/ 19:51
    05/23/03/ 19:52

[Jessie]

Thank you, that did work! Do you know how I would do that for an entire vector of yymmddHHMM instead of a string?

[per isakson]

"entire vector"(?) See above for a cell array of strings

[Craig Cowled]

Have you looked at the help file on datevec?