getting date into a label

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Hi,

I was wondering if there was not a gnuplot command to do this but help  
date did not help.

I am trying to automatically add the date to the title of a plot.
for some reason the following does not respect the -n option and adds  
newline.

datefile="date.txt";
system "echo -n 'date= \"' >".datefile." ; date '+%D'>>".datefile."\""
load datefile
title=title.date

finally got what I want with this:

datefile="date.txt";
system "today=\'date= \"\'`date '+%D'`\'\"\'; echo $today>".datefile
load datefile


If this is not just a feature I cannot find, could it be added? Gnuplot  
already parses all the std date format args, it would presumably be  
trivial to add.

eg
today = date("+%D");
title=title.today


Thx.