How do I crop white space from datetime plots ?

I have been trying to plot some datetime data and have been using datetime table with data table to plot.

The x-axis shows a white area before and after data which does not show while using regular format, not datetime.

So how do I crop white parts from the subplots ? I cannot do it using the zoom in tool because it disalign with other plots. Also axis align does not seem to work. Any help is apreciated.

Answer 1

[dpb]

xlim([datetime(yL,mL,dL) datetime(yR,mR,dR)])

where yX,mX,dX are year/month/date for Left/Right axes limits desired. Presuming using recent-enough release--if you get error saying something about "must use a double", that's an intermediary release wherein the plot function accepts datetime but the axes are still in datenum form internally. In that case, substitute datenum for datetime

ADDENDUM

Bad eyes...just noticed that the desired start/stop times include times, not just days. Same idea, just need to use the six-element date vector for input rather than the three...

xlim([datetime(yL,mL,dL, hL,ML,sL) datetime(yR,mR,dR, hR,MR,sR)])

for hr, min, sec.

ERRATUM

Also noticed and corrected a typo in original of having copied the opening [ to the second argument of xlim which would have unbalanced matching brackets.