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Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting

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Date 2014-09-29 01:53 -0700
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Subject Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting
From Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com>

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On Friday, September 26, 2014 5:53:06 PM UTC+2, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> 
> Millisecond precision over an axis range with hourly spacing would
> imply 7 or more decimal places of accuracy in the display.
> That exceeds the precision of any output device I know of.

I agree on this one :-)  Milliseconds precision makes no sense here.

> [...]
> However it could make sense to attach millisecond precision to individual
> data points if they are sparsely distributed.
> That is why yticlabels might be an option.

The data points are not that sparsely distributed.  Using yticlabels, this is what I get:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32340538/gnuplot/yticlabels_not_nice.png

As you can see, quite a cluttered graph.  Not really what I want.  It would be better to have equally spaced Y ticlabels that have a format that is one of

HH:MM:SS
HH:MM
HH
MM:SS
MM
SS

Which of these formats gets selected, should depend on the data-values (some data is only minutes, other is hours).

Is there a way to create these evenly spaced time-ticlabels and let gnuplot decide for itself the exact formatting of the y ticlabels?

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concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2014-09-25 01:55 -0700
  Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2014-09-25 02:29 -0700
    Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2014-09-25 19:51 -0700
      Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2014-09-26 04:14 -0700
        Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2014-09-26 08:53 -0700
          Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2014-09-29 01:53 -0700
            Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2014-09-29 08:35 -0700
              Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2014-09-30 08:10 -0700
                Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2014-09-30 16:43 -0700
                Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 01:34 -0700
                Re: concatenating xticlabels and y-axis-formatting Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 08:13 -0700

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