Re: [Gnuplot-info] Need help: Time/date format

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Hans-Bernhard Br?ker wrote:

> On 06.01.2011 00:23, da...@la... wrote:
>> currently gnuplot only supports time on the X axis,
>
> I wonder what made believe that.
>
>> what you would need to
>> do is to manipulate the data before gnuplot tries to use it.
>
> No.  This works:
>
> gnuplot> set xdata time
> gnuplot> set ydata time
> gnuplot> set timefmt x '%Y-%m-%d'
> gnuplot> set timefmt y '%H:%M'
> gnuplot> p '-' u 1:2 w lp
> input data ('e' ends) > 2010-12-02 7:53
> input data ('e' ends) > 2010-12-03 7:55
> input data ('e' ends) > 2010-12-06 7:59
> input data ('e' ends) > 2010-12-07 8:00
> input data ('e' ends) > e
> gnuplot>

as of what release? the 4.4 documentation says that the both axis can be 
time (which I had missed), but it says that they must use the same 
timefmt.

David Lang