Re: [Gnuplot-info] Making/finding a timefmt for the unix date command default output

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 20.01.2018 um 04:28 schrieb Alan Corey:
> I'd like to be able to do date >> datafile, then edit the file to add
> other columns, and have Gnuplot understand the date/time format which
> looks like:
> 
> Fri Jan 19 22:08:14 EST 2018
> 
> It seems like this must be a common thing to do.  

Not really, since the common approach would be that, if you want a 
machine to parse that timestamp, you better not output it in a format 
designed strictly for human consumption.  Not even if that's the default 
format.

This is what date options like +'%s', -Iseconds or --rfc3339 are for, 
the latter two possibly combined with -u to get absolute timestamps.

Or better yet, see if your editor can't insert the timestamps itself, 
instead of you having to do this in a two-step process.