Re: [Gnuplot-info] plotting 2d specifying range on 3rd dimension

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Alexander_P wrote:

> the time is in the first collumn and i want to plot 3:4 for example
> specifying a range on the time collumn ( for example ["02:00:00":"03:00:00"]
> )

This contains at least two independent problems.

1) Specifying a range on a column you're not actually plotting.  You 
need extended "using" specifications for that, like

	plot 'data' using ($1>min1 && $1<max1: $2 : 0/0):3

2) Interpreting a column as time data even though you're not actually 
plotting it.  "set timefmt" only directly applies to input coordinates, 
but in your plot, column #1 isn't one of them.  This would need the 
suggested, but (as yet) unimplemented string processing function 
"strptime()".

If you're lucky, you might manage to use 'timecolumn()' and 'set 
timefmt', but it's going to be quite tricky.