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From: neil on 21 Jul 2010 01:42
"Marie " <none(a)nospam.com> wrote in message <i25prc$7cg$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Dear Matlab Users,
>
> Matlab typically puts a scale factor (i.e. x 10^5) on an axis when the units are too large to display. For example, in Matlab r2008b:
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> plot(linspace(0,100), linspace(0,1e6))
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> will produce y labels of 0 to 10 x 10^5. I would like to eliminate this as in my application the axis consists of Matlab serial dates and I provide text tick marks corresponding to dates. The scaling label is not selectable and I don't see anything obvious looking through the axis properties that could be deleted or turned off.
>
> If anyone has ideas I would be appreciative.
>
> Thank you - Marie

Try the datetick function
after you plot

datetick('x','yy');

This will make the x ticks to be years. You can customize this to another date format.
Alternately you can set the xtick property of the axis

see
get(gca,'xtick') and set(gca,'xtick',[newTickMatrix])
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