excel decimal time conversion

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David C
David C on 28 Mar 2013
I have a PW protected excel spreadsheet that has a date/time column, but formatted as "general"
using xlsread, the timestamps (ie 8:51:42) are read into matlab as the numberic formatted time of 0.3692
How do you convert this decimal into the actual time?
datestr(0.3692) gives 1:15 PM and not the 8:51:42 that I expected to get
All help is appreciated!

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 28 Mar 2013
datestr(0.3692,'HH:MM:SS')
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David C
David C on 28 Mar 2013
as i mentioned above, datestr gives a different answer
must have something to do with how excel converts a time into a decimal :(

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