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From: "Allen S. Rout" <asr@ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: Plotting (with gnuplot) using dates timestamps
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:21 -0400
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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