Re: minor bug regarding time/date graphs

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Consider yourself somewhat lucky, then.  I don't think sequence ticks
> have ever worked well in gnuplot.  

Duh.  An important part of that statement didn't make it from brain to
keyboard: it's only sequence tics on *time/date* axes that are this shaky.

> The crucial variable is axis_array[].format_is_numeric.  It's set
> to FALSE in the case at hand, and that's wrong.  I'll look into this.

Did that, found and fixed it in the CVS sources.  The bug was in
set.c:looks_like_numeric().  That function was utterly broken completely
at least since the default format was changed from '%g' to '% g'.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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