From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Buczkowski Subject: Re: Plotting (with gnuplot) using dates timestamps Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:07:58 -0400 Message-ID: <1332770878.2404.3.camel@ascraeus> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCAam-0002cF-Qz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:08:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCAad-0002X1-I0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:08:16 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:60121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCAad-0002WI-BE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:08:07 -0400 Received: by qafl39 with SMTP id l39so2442291qaf.0 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:08:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode Mode On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 15:37 +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to plot the following table, but the dates part is all wrong. Is there a way to tell gnuplot what the date format is? > > #+tblname: data-table > | Date | HP | HC | > |------------------+--------+--------| > | [2011-08-20 Sat] | 006815 | 008399 | > | [2011-08-29 Mon] | 006840 | 008438 | > | [2011-09-11 Sun] | 006946 | 008552 | > | [2011-12-11 Sun] | 007805 | 009603 | > | [2012-03-04 Sun] | 008800 | 010826 | > | [2012-03-11 Sun] | 008876 | 010930 | > | [2012-03-25 Sun] | 009015 | 011121 | > In straight gnuplot, I would do something like the following: gnuplot> set xdata time gnuplot> set timefmt '[%Y-%m-%d %a]' then, plot. Steven -- ----------------------------------- Steven Buczkowski PhD Candidate - Atmospheric Physics UMBC Physics Dept 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 Email: sbuczkowski@umbc.edu Cell: 413-687-9102 (No texts. Email instead.) 2m/70cm: KB3RRJ (147.135+[156.7]/448.275-[156.7]) Smoke Signal: Two long, Two short. I'll send a rider. -----------------------------------