time-formatted axes

[Rob Mahurin]

Hello,

I have lots of timestamped data, where I want to look at what  
something did over six months, zoom in to an hour's data last fall,  
compare that to an hour's data yesterday, etc.  Keeping all of these  
things straight takes a lot of dickering with axis labels.  Usually I  
store timestamps as unix times, which makes totally worthless default  
axes ticklabels (like "1.236e09" for this morning).

Gnuplot has the nice idiom
        set xdata time
which magically makes useful axis labels.  Is there currently a good  
way to do the same thing in Octave?

Thanks,
Rob

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Rob Mahurin
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee                 865 207 2594
Knoxville, TN 37996                     address@hidden