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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"><HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=iso-iso-8859-1"><LINK REL="Start" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="Contents" HREF="toc.html"><LINK REL="Prev" HREF="89Adjustingtheautomatictickmarks.html"><LINK REL="Next" HREF="8101Usingtheautomaticdatetimescale.html"><STYLE TYPE="text/css"><!--BODY { font-family: serif }H1 { font-family: sans-serif }H2 { font-family: sans-serif }H3 { font-family: sans-serif }H4 { font-family: sans-serif }H5 { font-family: sans-serif }H6 { font-family: sans-serif }SUB { font-size: smaller }SUP { font-size: smaller }PRE { font-family: monospace }A { text-decoration: none }--></STYLE></HEAD><BODY><A HREF="toc.html">Contents</A><A HREF="89Adjustingtheautomatictickmarks.html">Previous</A><A HREF="8101Usingtheautomaticdatetimescale.html">Next</A><HR NOSHADE><H2><A NAME="8_10">8.10 Handling date/time scales</A></H2><P> With date/time scale we refer to the plotting of data where theindependent variable (X-axis) de-nominates a time value. This could forexample be the temperature measured in intervals during a day.</P><P> From version 1.18 and onwards there are two principal ways ofhandling date/time scales. The manual way and fully automatic using thespecial "dat" scale. For most cases the automatic "dat" scale is thepreferred choice but in rare circumstances it might be more appropriateto use the manual way since it gives slightly more control (but notthat much) of the overall handling of scales.</P><P> To be able to use a date/time scale at all we will assume that thedata points are represented by both an X coordinate (time-value) and aY-value (anything else wouldn't make sense).</P><P> We first start by describing the use of the "dat" scale.</P><HR NOSHADE><A HREF="toc.html">Contents</A><A HREF="89Adjustingtheautomatictickmarks.html">Previous</A><A HREF="8101Usingtheautomaticdatetimescale.html">Next</A></BODY></HTML>