How to convert serial date numbers to date and time format in a timeseries?

I'm trying to convert my values of Time in the format 'dd-mmm-yyyy HH:MM:SS', but somehow my time series keep changing the date.

I have a signal with a sampling frequency of 200 Hz (so 1 second "will be" 200 samples). The signal started to record at a certain date and time and I'm trying to create a timeseries to show me the "true" time and not samples (where the recording starts from zero).

% Create timeseries
ts = timeseries(mysignal);
% Set start/stop date and time of recording
start = '20-Aug-2018 07:25:13';
stop = '20-Aug-2018 11:42:54';
ts.TimeInfo.Startdate = start;

By default, my timeseries will be:

ts.Time(1) = '20-Aug-2018 07:25:13';
ts.Time(2) = '20-Aug-2018 07:25:14';

when, in reality, the date and time '20-Aug-2018 07:25:14' will only be at the 201-st sample.

I've adjusted my timeseries to fit this by doing the following:

% Convert time and date
starttime = datenum(start);
endtime = datenum(stop);

% Set a new interval
tsout = setuniformtime(ts, 'StartTime', starttime, 'EndTime', endtime);

But the date in ts is changing to:

tsout.Time(1) = '26-Aug-2018 20:13:23';
tsout.Time(end) = '26-Aug-2018 20:13:23';

How can I set a new interval and display it in the format I want? My goal is to have:

ts.Time(1) = '20-Aug-2018 07:25:13';
...
ts.Time(201) = '20-Aug-2018 07:25:14';
...
ts.Time(end) = '20-Aug-2018 11:42:54';

I also followed the same strategy as here but since my signal is quite large, datestr is very slow at making the conversion.

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Try this:

start = '20-Aug-2018 07:25:13';
stop = '20-Aug-2018 11:42:54';
stop = '20-Aug-2018 07:25:15';                                          % Shorter Series For Test
t1 = datetime(start, 'InputFormat','dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss')
t2 = datetime(stop, 'InputFormat','dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss')
ts = (t1:seconds(1/200):t2)';
ts.Format = 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS';

T1 = ts(1)                                                              % Check Results (Delete Later)
T201 = ts(201)
TEND = ts(end)

Producing:

T1 = 
   20-Aug-2018 07:25:13.000

T201 = 
   20-Aug-2018 07:25:14.000

TEND = 
   20-Aug-2018 07:25:15.000

[noquinhas]

Thank you! Do you know how I can add a timedate object to a timeseries? When I try the following:

mytimeseries = timeseries(mysignal, ts(1:end-1)); %So it has the same length as the signal since ts has a length of (n+1)

It gives me the following error:

Error using timeseries/init
The second argument must be either the time vector or the time series name.

Thank you once again!

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

I am not certain what you want to do. Perhaps a timetable (link) object is what you are looking for. (It was introduced in R2016b.) I do not have much experience with timetable objects, although they look straightforward to implement.