Hi Denis, before you are frustrated, you should take a look at the hint given by Juernjakob - it seems to address exactly the requested use-case.
Best regards Christian 2012/11/28 Denis Bitouzé <dbito...@wanadoo.fr>: > Le mardi 27/11/12 à 21h48, > Christian Feuersaenger <cfeuersaen...@googlemail.com> a écrit : > >> Hi Denis, > > Hi Christian, > >> thanks for your request. > > You're welcome :) > >> The key question when we talk about plotting is: how large is the >> data range? The dateplot lib maps a complete date to some integer >> number. Unfortunately, the available precision is (appears to be) >> insufficient for seconds. > > Too bad! > >> However, if your data range is one or two days, > > At least in educational area, that's the case. > >> one could think about a different data transformation which "throws >> away" the month and year information and uses the full precision for >> the mapping. > > Yes, could be nice. > >> This, however, would need to be implemented as coordinate >> transformation. > > OK. > >> In other words: the answer to your question is: "Yes, if (a) your >> data range is small enough and (b) if someone implements it." > > Sigh... > > BTW, wouldn't be possible to delegate date time data handling to > gnuplot? AFAICS, it is not so bad for this task: as said p. 19 of > http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.6/gnuplot.pdf, "Gnuplot now > tracks time to millisecond precision" ;) > > Best regards. > -- > Denis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: > INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? > Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. > http://goparallel.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > Pgfplots-features mailing list > Pgfplots-features@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgfplots-features ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Pgfplots-features mailing list Pgfplots-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgfplots-features
