Plotting with a time axis in Matlab using dateTick and dateNumbers?

Try not showing all the tick marks, instead only a subset of them. Something along the lines.

Try not showing all the tick marks, instead only a subset of them. Something along the lines: set(gca,'YTick',timeAxis(1:10:end)) Also read up on DATETICK options: 'keepticks' and 'keeplimits.

I tried your suggestion about plotting less points. It doesn't change the result for plotting the second situation I described (using the real start and end times). What really confuses me about this is that changing ONLY the times has this effect.

The timestamp format doesn't change depending on the time so the axis labels shouldn't take up more space for a later time. – Daniel Jun 27 at 6:18.

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