Re: mouse cursor coords not x units

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Wednesday, 11 May 2011, pl...@pi... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I work quite a lot with time data (years and month scale) . Although 
> gnuplot is very flexible in reading time data and labelling x axis the 
> mouse cursor seems a bit challenged.
> 
> If I have "%Y %m" , having 6.004538e+09 as mouse coord is really little 
> more than useless.
> 
> Since the scaling is available for axis labels why isn't this applied to 
> the mouse coords? It would seem to be very simple and I can't see the 
> utility in the current date in seconds.
> 
> Is this just an oversight?

Mouse coordinate readout is available in 5 or 6 different formats,
including user-specified.  See "help mouseformat" and the help
message printed by typing "h" in the plot window.
In general you can cycle through the different options using the
characters "1" and "2" as hotkeys.