[Gnuplot-bugs] set table using time format data

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Hi,

Having some difficulty making this work. I started with 4.2 but find the  
same results using today's CVS.

here's a line from my working .gnu that does plot the line I want to
output to a table:


   plot  "150tank-txC.data"   using 1:($1<"14:00")?(P( Th4($3-2.0) -
   Th5($2) )/10):(P1( Th4($3-2.0) - Th5($2) )/10) with lines t "useful  
power"


however , if I use this in a table context I get an error:


   gnuplot> load "150tank-txC.gnu"
          "150tank-txC.gnu", line 46: Bad format character



Even if I take it to it's simplest form and explicitly use
timecolumn() it always gives that error.

   set table "tmp.data"
   plot "150tank-txC.data" using (timecolumn(1)):($2)
   unset table

line 46 is the plot command here above.

It seems it's getting parsed differently, is there something else I
need to know here?

It would appear that table output does not correctly process time format  
data at this point.
Is that correct?

TIA.