# set terminal pngcairo transparent enhanced font "arial,10" fontscale 1.0 size 600, 400 # set output 'stringvar.7.png' set xdata time set format x "% h" timedate set key inside left top vertical Right noreverse enhanced autotitle nobox set style increment default set xrange [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set x2range [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set yrange [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set y2range [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set zrange [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set cbrange [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set rrange [ * : * ] noreverse writeback file(i) = sprintf("%1d.dat",i) read_time(fmt, c) = strptime(fmt, stringcolumn(c).' '.stringcolumn(c+1)) iswindows = 0 beg = 2 end = 4 foo = "Apostrophes inside words don't matter" haystack = "Thu Nov 15 12:12:38 PST 2018" needle = ":" S = 14 N = 2 M = 3 fmt = "%d/%m/%y\t%H%M" time_str = "2005-05-09 19:44:12" seconds = 1115667852.0 time_str2 = "2005-05-09 19:44:22" ## Last datafile plotted: "timedat.dat" plot 'timedat.dat' skip 1 using (read_time(fmt,1)):3 with histeps, 'timedat.dat' skip 1 using (read_time(fmt,1)):($3-0.01):2 with labels title ''