function axesCommonProp( hPlotAxes )

datetick(hPlotAxes(1), 'x', 'keeplimits');
datetick(hPlotAxes(2), 'x', 'keeplimits');
datetick(hPlotAxes(3), 'x', 'keeplimits');

% Make the axes visible
% ---------------------
set(hPlotAxes(1), 'Visible', 'on' );
set(hPlotAxes(2), 'Visible', 'on' );
set(hPlotAxes(3), 'Visible', 'on' );

drawnow

% The 3 axes will behave identically when zoomed and panned
% ---------------------------------------------------------
linkaxes([hPlotAxes(1),hPlotAxes(2),hPlotAxes(3)], 'x');

end