Re: [Gnuplot-info] relative second time data

[Ethan M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Tait <gnu...@t4...> wrote:
>> I'll try.
>>
>> Why the old commands were insufficient
>> ======================================
>> ...
>> The version 5 syntax
>> ====================
>> ...
>
> Thanks for the explanation. Could this be copied into "help
> time/date" and maybe also a note added to "help set xdata" and "help
> time"?

I think all the information is in the documentation in various places,
but maybe it needs better indexing.

gnuplot> help timedata
[...]
 Note: For backward compatibility with earlier gnuplot versions, the command
 `set xdata time` will implicitly also do `set xtics time`, and `set xdata`
 or `unset xdata` will implicitly reset to `set xtics numeric`.  However you
 can change this with a later call to `set xtics`.

See also the syntax summaries for "help set xtics", "help geographic",
"help timefmt", and so on.  It is true that there is no mention of new
command options in "help set xdata".