Re: change handling of time data for 5.0?

[Karl R. <ra...@un...>]

i just checked out the latest 5.1 cvs, and it seems to work just nicely.

Am 04.10.2014 21:00, schrieb sfeam:
> plot <foo> using (Offset_2_weeks + timecolumn(N)):M
> 
> I don't see a way to catch that without adding additional bookkeeping

Also no problem here, if the "timefmt" is set, so there seems to be full
compatibility to the (documented part of) v4 behaviour.

I noticed two minor glitches:

- Changing back to "set xtics numeric" keeps a previously set time
formatstring, which then throws an error "Bad format character". I think
the different output format strings should be kept in separate
variables, with default values for each. (Dang, that would break
backward compatibility to some extent, depending on the order of
commands. Perhaps store them in additional variables, and copy them to
the actually used tics format variable whenever an "(un)set xdata time"
or "set xtics time/numeric/.." command is issued. "set xtics format
<fstring>" would only change the latter, then.)

- The synonymous "set format x/y/x2/.. <formatstring>" command also
needs the time/numeric/.. option.

  Karl



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