Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnuplot
I've recently struggled with parsing some stuff from my log files.
After discovering that three-letter name of month isn't parseable by
gnuplot, I tried to just plot for one month, using a timefmt of "%d
%H:%M:%S". Gnuplot accepts this, but interprets the "%d" value as
seconds since Jan 2000, and ignores the time information. Prepending a
numerical month, and using "%m/%d ..." works.
My main issue is that a single %d should be interpreted as day-of-month
(using current year and month if not otherwise specified)
In addition, I think gnuplot should provide better error reporting when
date parsing fails, and especially if timefmt tries to use unsupported
fields like %b or %h, it should be easy to provide something better than
"x range is invalid".
Ubuntu 10.04, gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6 from deb version 4.2.6-1
** Affects: gnuplot (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Problems reading date format
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602193
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