How to plot multiple days' worth of data without overlapping?

I am trying to plot temperature versus time (both vectors) over an entire month, and have data points every ten minutes. When I do this, it puts all data points that have the same time along the same axis. I'd like to know how to lay out the x-axis so that I have all points spread out and in chronological order.

Answer 1

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You don't say in what form your time data is encoded, but the easiest solution is to convert it to Matlab datenum serial dates and plot against it. Then you'll use datetick with the desired formatting to turn the x-axis into a time-based axis.

doc datenum  % and friends
doc datetick % for further details and examples