showing hours elapsed not date and time data

hi so i am exporting data from excel :

however when i get the data into matlab it is given as serial numbers and when i use datestr to change it into time it doesnt give me the hours elapsed rather

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how can i get my data in matlab to look exactly like it was in excel so i can plot it against other values.

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Let d be your datetime array.

d.Format = 'hh:mm:ss';
t = cellstr(d)      

[Abbey Kirkman]

hi thank you so much for your reponse unfortunetly i get the following error

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

How are you importing this data from Microsoft Excel? See if the function or technique you're using to import the data can import it as a duration array not text or datetime.

[Abbey Kirkman]

hi i am using readmatrix to import my data. can readmatrix import data as a duration array?