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Subject: Re: timefmt, changing the day of the week
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On 02.05.2014 19:34, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:

> If I simply say plot
> <file> using ($1):2 I am brought on Tue-25-April 2034!

> I'm sure my
> experiment took place Wed-30-April 2014.

I'm pretty sure one of those statements is off by a decade.

 > So at least counting from
> 2004-01-01 gives the correct day-of-the month and month.  But showing the
> right day-of-the-week would be a plus!

Well, of course it does!  You've beamed your data into entirely the 
wrong year, Sherlock!

> 1: I cause Gnuplot to adhere to the same UT school as may application.

No need to.  All you have to do is to actually _tell_ it that your data 
is in Unix epoch time.  Instead you're throwing random offsets into the 
mix and expecting miracles.