Zoom Adaptive Date Ticks

Make date ticks adapt to zooming

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Editor's Note: This was a File Exchange Pick of the Week

Note that although this piece of code still works with R2014b, the same effect can be achieved by simply using the new datetime data type as first input to plot when running R2014b or newer versions.
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% zoomAdaptiveDateTicks('on')
% Turns on the automatic adaptation of date ticks
% to user zooming for the current figure window
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% zoomAdaptiveDateTicks('off')
% Turns off the automatic adaptation of date ticks
% to user zooming for the current figure window
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% zoomAdaptiveDateTicks('demo')
% Opens a demo figure window to play with

Cite As

Andreas Krahnke (2026). Zoom Adaptive Date Ticks (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15342-zoom-adaptive-date-ticks), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired: cbdate

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.1.0.1

Updated license

1.1.0.0

Note for the new R2014b release.

1.0.0.0

Changed the 'demo' feature to not use the 'today' function which only ships with the Financial toolbox but the 'now' function