constructing a time variable in matlab

Dear all,

I have a matrix

data= [9    30     0
     9    30     0
     9    30     0
     9    30     0
     9    30     0
     9    30     1
     9    30     1
     9    30     1
     9    30     1
     9    30     1];
 

The first colum is the hour, the second column is the minute and the third column is second

I want to merge these 3 columns so as to construct a time variable as follows

datanew= [9.300
    9.300
    9.300
    9.300
    9.300
    9.301
    9.301
    9.301]
;

How Can I do that in matlab? Is there any code?

[madhan ravi]

datetime() ?

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Read about duration

iwant = duration(data) ;

Or you can simply use:

iwant = data(:,1)+data(:,2)/100+data(:,3)/1000