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

[Alan C. <ala...@gm...>]

In case anybody finds this and tries to use it, that alias may not work right.

This is different and seems to work:

alias newbp='cd /usr/tmp/health ; echo `date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M"` >>
bp.txt ; joe bp.txt'

single quotes at the outermost level
double quotes around the format string to date
backticks around the whole date command to feed date's output to echo


On 1/20/18, Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...> wrote:
> Am 20.01.2018 um 16:20 schrieb Alan Corey:
>> OK, I hadn't really tried parsing this format in Gnuplot before I
>> don't think, I've done the more common American YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.
>
> To give credit where it's due: that format is really not American in any
> meaningful way.  That's an abridged version of the international format
> ISO 8601 offered by date -I.  That International Standard ended up
> looking that way in no small part because _somebody_ had to tackle that
> unholy mess created by the actual English and American formats: DD/MM/YY
> and MM/DD/YY.  And no, I won't even try to remember which of those was
> which.
>
>> I
>> thought Gnuplot date parsing was a more complete subset of strptime
>> and strftime.
>
> It is.  But parsing the week day would not make sense for gnuplot, where
> strptime()'s output is not a struct tm, but rather the single
> time_t-style number.  In short, the weekday is entirely redundant in a
> classic date string, so all it could add to the input is a new problem,
> if it's given incorrectly.
>


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