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Subject: Re: missing date in input file
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:18:39 +0100
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On 21.03.2012 15:04, Frank Ursel wrote:

> But it could know it - it knows how to draw the x-axis with dates,
> without gaps, even if some dates are missing in the data set.

No it can't, because there's no way it can know _why_ those data points 
are not present in your dataset.

For something to be missing, there has to be some expectation for it to 
be there, which then fails to be fulfilled.  gnuplot doesn't have any 
such expectations, thus no concept of something missing.