How to plot duration where time rolls over days?

I have raw data that is in the format "dayofyear:hh:mm:ss" format. When I run a script that usually works for duration in a single day I have no issues, however, this data set started at 212:22:50:26.0000 and ends at 213:02:07:40.0000.

The plot will shoves the beginning time all the way to the right (like it would be at the end of the day) and the rest of the plot gets shoved to the left (as if it was the beginning of the day) but it's not taking into account the rollover in day of year.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

You will need to convert these to your duration array, however the day-of-year conversion (using DDD in the InputFormat string) will do what you want.

Try this:

InpFmt = 'DDD:HH:mm:ss.SSSS';
OptFmt = 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSS';
t1 = datetime('212:22:50:26.0000', 'InputFormat',InpFmt, 'Format',OptFmt)
t2 = datetime('213:02:07:40.0000', 'InputFormat',InpFmt, 'Format',OptFmt)

producing:

t1 = 

  datetime

   2020-07-30 22:50:26.0000


t2 = 

  datetime

   2020-07-31 02:07:40.0000

You may also need to adjust the year if it not the current year. That should be straightforward.

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