Change time in a timeseries object

Hello everybody!

I have a timeseries object in which the time is expressed as follow:

val =


    '16-Jan-2014 12:00:00'
    '15-Feb-2014 00:00:00'
    '16-Mar-2014 12:00:00'

I wuold like to have the time in the 'dd - mm - YYYY' information, i.e. like this:

    val =


    '16-Jan-2014'
    '15-Feb-2014'
    '16-Mar-2014'

Is there a way to do that?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Suppose TS is your timeseries. Then

TS.TimeInfo.Format = 'dd-mmm-yyyy';

after which

getabstime(TS)

would use that format.

The format specification uses datestr(), not datetime() forms, and there are a limited number of supported formats. It must be one of the forms returned by tsgetDateFormat(). Exact matches are used -- case sensitive, no added spaces permitted, and you cannot use different delimiters.

    {'dd-mmm-yyyy HH:MM:SS'    }
    {'dd-mmm-yyyy HH:MM:SS.FFF'}
    {'dd-mmm-yyyy'             }
    {'mm/dd/yy'                }
    {'HH:MM:SS'                }
    {'HH:MM:SS.FFF'            }
    {'HH:MM:SS PM'             }
    {'HH:MM:SS.FFF PM'         }
    {'HH:MM'                   }
    {'HH:MM PM'                }
    {'mmm.dd,yyyy HH:MM:SS'    }
    {'mmm.dd,yyyy HH:MM:SS.FFF'}
    {'mmm.dd,yyyy'             }
    {'mm/dd/yyyy'              }