Gnuplot date/time in x axis

Question

I have a quick question regarding dates and times in x-axis in GNUPLOT. I\'ll let the code do the talking:

This is my data:

#Time   Data in Data out
         


        

Answer 1

As far as I understood, the order of instructions is important, I could afford it using:

• The timefmt is for data and has to be the same for xrange

• format x is only for displaying

          set xdata time
          set timefmt "%Y%m%dT%H%M%S"
          set format x "%Y-%m-%d\n%H:%M:%S"
          # or with bash variables: set xrange ["$l_start_dt":"$l_end_dt"]
          set xrange ["20190620T000000":"20190628T000000"]