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Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right

From	sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right
Followup-To	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Date	2011-08-30 08:41 -0700
Organization	gnuplot development team
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rblove@gmail.com wrote:

> My one remaining issue is I have too many xtics in the date format.
> The x-axis is almost unreadable
> 
> How can I set to every other or every 3rd date? My command file looks
> like this:
> reformat(date) = date[6:7]."/".date[9:10]
> plot 'events.data' using 2:xtic(reformat(stringcolumn(1))

  reformat(date) = (column(0)%3 != 0) ? "" : date[6:7]."/".date[9:10]

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Date Based Histogram--almost right "rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com> - 2011-08-30 08:22 -0700
  Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2011-08-30 08:41 -0700
    Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right "rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com> - 2011-08-30 10:46 -0700
      Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right "rblove@gmail.com" <rblove@gmail.com> - 2011-08-30 12:35 -0700

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