Put axis label in their respective middle (3D plot)

I'm trying to put the axis label in a 3D plot in the middle of the axis, without rotate them.

As example, consider this figure

obtained using this code:

colormap(hsv);
s = 0:0.025:3;
t = s;
[x,y] = meshgrid(s,t);
z = x.^2 - y.^2;
mesh(x,y,z); 
xlabel('time[sec]')
ylabel('position[mm]')
zlabel('force[N]')

What I want to obtained is something as shown in figure below (look x and y labels).

Is it possible??

Answer 1

[dpb]

...
mesh(x,y,z); 
hXL=xlabel('time[sec]');                    % default label, save handle
hXL.Position=hXL.Position+[0.5 0 0];        % adjust default position

comes reasonably close -- salt to suit and follow the same idea for y.