Re: [Gnuplot-info] strptime() fails to recognize negative hours

[Sergei N. <vo...@ra...>]

В письме от пятница, 3 апреля 2020 г. 22:35:31 MSK пользователь Hans-Bernhard 
Bröker написал:

> That would not improve anything because that's exactly what the existing
> code already does behind the scenes (except that it works in seconds,not
> hours).  The actual syntax for that is either (old-style)

True. And according to https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2245/ this 
particular bug for a timecolumn is fixed already.

However, when I was writing about a formatted reading I meant something of a 
more general nature when ANY column could be read through a format, not 
necessarily a time column. This of course raises a somewhat philosophical 
question on whether this should be done in Gnuplot and not through a  standard 
awk/sed/whatever machinery...

Thanks,
Sergei