Re: 30-year time offset reading nonuniform matrix %s input

[Juhász P. <pet...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 17:08 +0200, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> >> In the first case, the year is correctly set to 2013. In the second,
> >> it is displayed as 2043. This seems to be a mistake in the nonuniform
> >> matrix time input?
> >
> > This probably fixes it, but the possible consequences elsewhere are not
> > certain.  At a minimum it makes all references to the year 2000 in the
> > manual incorrect, since it resets the epoch boundary to 1970.
> 
> What about adding
>  	set datafile epoch 2000
> so that the year can be set by the user?
> 
> ---
> PM

While I can imagine some specific use cases where this would not only
make sense, but would be actually useful (e.g. for an astronomical time
series plot one might want to set the epoch to MJD 0), in general I
think the added complexity and confusion makes such a feature not worth
it.

Peter