Readtable() turns time stamp into decimal
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I have a table with 40 columns. When I use readtable() it turns the time stamps into decimals and I don't know what the decimals mean. I need to extract the time stamps. And also I don't want the headers, but it reads them anyways.
data = readtable(filename, 'ReadVariableNames', false); %read in data file
Original excel file:

How the data looks in matlab:

5 Comments
Walter Roberson
on 14 Apr 2020
add 'headerlines', 1 to readtable
Amanda Beatty
on 15 Apr 2020
Star Strider
on 15 Apr 2020
This appears to be a problem with Excel files that use the ‘AM/PM’ time desiignations, and still exists in R2020a. The best way to deal with it (in my experience) is to force Excel to write it as a text file to a different file name. Then, use readtable with the text file with detectImportOptions since it allows formatting options for the time columns in text files that do not exist with spreadsheet files.
Walter Roberson
on 15 Apr 2020
The numbers are fractions of a day, so you can
Time = days(FractionsOfADay);
Time.Format = 'hh:mm:ss';
Amanda Beatty
on 15 Apr 2020
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