Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] Incorrect date calculation

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Robert Minsk wrote:
> I was not reading them as plain numbers, I was reading
> them as time values.  

That's what you intended to do, sure.  But it's not what you actually 
did.  The ($1) syntax is shorthand for (column(1)), and column() *does* 
read its input as plain numbers.

> I will look at timecolumn.  Do you have an example of
> it's use?  

There's documentation of it.  Look it up: "help timecolumn".