From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Allen S. Rout" Subject: Re: Plotting (with gnuplot) using dates timestamps Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCATb-0005eF-Nq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:01:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCATO-0008QD-AP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:51 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCATO-0008Pu-3K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:38 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SCATL-0005VV-Cx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:00:35 +0200 Received: from n128-227-48-12.xlate.ufl.edu ([128.227.48.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:00:35 +0200 Received: from asr by n128-227-48-12.xlate.ufl.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:00:35 +0200 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@gnu.org On 03/26/2012 09:37 AM, 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? > I've found gnuplot's date support to be torment. You might want to investigate using R for these tasks: R understands what a date is at a fundamental level, and doesn't give you any crap about it. Better still, once you climb over the activation energy of changing graphing idioms, a huge vista of new capabilities are open to you. - Allen S. Rout