Re: [Gnuplot-info] v5.0 regression

[David L. <da...@la...>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> On Friday, 09 January 2015 10:13:41 PM David Lang wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, 09 January 2015 02:14:27 PM David Lang wrote:
>>>> I ran into a case that worked with v4.x that doesn't work with v5, namely when
>>>> plotting points from a file where the x column is a timestamp and the file had
>>>> column headers, v4 seems to have ignored the header column (apparently deciding
>>>> that the timestamp was invalid and so throwing out the entire line), while v5
>>>> interprets the timestamp as 01-01-0000 and scaleing the entire plot to include
>>>> this date.
>>>
>>>> I just was surprised when the plot that was working on my production
>>>> system didn't work on my desktop (where I had installed 5.0). If this
>>>> wasn't something that worked on the older versions, I would just shrug
>>>> it off as "don't do that", but the fact that it broke a working config
>>>> made me post about it.
>>>
>>> Can you provide the first few lines from a data file that was handled
>>> differently by version 4 than by version 5?
>>
>> site_name|day|num_assets
>> AMS|2014-12-09|596
>>
>> where column 2 is the x axis with timefmt "%Y-%m-%d"
>>
>> stripping out the first line made it work in v5
>
> I can't reproduce this from the information given.

and I can't reproduce it today either :-(

If I run into it again, I'll send details.

David Lang