Re: feature idea: "NOW" as function or variable (current time in seconds...)

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Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> 
> I've been looking for a way to specify that only the last e.g. 24h of a 
> logfile are plotted, e.g. 
> 
> set xrange [NOW-secondsperday:NOW]

On system that support pipes and have Unix-ish tools installed, a 
variation on the theme of

	set xrange [`date yesterday`:`date`]

should do that.

> IMHO, it would make a useful addition for future gnuplot versions to be 
> able to access the current time in e.g. the form of a timestamp. 

Feature request --> post it to the Feature Request Tracker on 
SourceForge.Net.