Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] big mxtics values crash gnuplot_x11 4.2

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rom...@ar... wrote:

> The culprit is the command 'set mxtics'; without it everythings runs fine.
[...]
> The same script worked without problems with version 4.0

I rather seriously doubt that.  It may have suceeded not to crash, but 
it didn't "work" in any useful interpretation of the term.

> In case you wonder, this is a boiled down version of a script which plots multi
>   year time series and the commands produce tics at year start and minor tics at
>   the start of each quarter

Actually, no.  You seriously misunderstand the meaning of 'set mxtics' 
--- to an extent that I wonder if you ever actually read its 
documentation.  That 'set mxtics' setting actually tries to place a 
whopping 8 million minor tics per year, instead of one per 8 million 
seconds, as you thought it would.  Once you change it to do something 
sensible, it works just fine:

set xtics 31557600
set mxtics 4
plot [][0:] '-' us 1:2
  624284064      165.09
  627071328    -2285.77
e

Oh, and by the way, you may want to investigate "help time/date" and 
links therein for generally saner ways of treating such data.