Re: Advice on boxes plot and setting xrange with a time axis

[Daniel F. <boy...@gm...>]

Hello Thomas,

I have made the changes you suggested but it now clips on both sides!  
It this a bug?

Have a look here,

http://www.boyfarrell.com/forums/gnuplot/bars2.txt
http://www.boyfarrell.com/forums/gnuplot/plot-bars2.txt
http://www.boyfarrell.com/forums/gnuplot/plot-bars2.pdf

Regards,

Dan.

On 14 May 2008, at 19:17, Thomas Sefzick wrote:

>
> set timefmt "%m.%Y"
> set xrange ["12.1999":"01.2001"]
> set timefmt "%m"
> plot 'bars.txt' using 1:2 title 'A'
>
> explanation:
> you can't set the xrange to 'december one year before' with
> timefmt "%m" because there is no way to give the year, and
> month numbers <= 0 are not allowed.
>
> note:
> gnuplot starts counting time from the 'beginning of epoch',
> so if you have only month numbers in your datafile, it automatically
> chooses year 2000.
>
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