[Orgmode] Re: Plotting date on xaxis

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Johan Ekh (2010-02-22 19:31:41 +0100) wrote:

> I try to plot a table looking like this
>
>      |       Date    |   Kg |
>      |-----------------+--------|
>      | 2010-02-21 | 95.0 |
>      | 2010-02-22 | 93.0 |
>      | 2010-02-23 | 92.0 |
>      | 2010-02-24 | 91.5 |
>      | 2010-02-25 | 91.0 |
>      | 2010-02-29 | 92.0 |
>      |                  |        |
>
> with the dates on the xaxis using
>
> #+PLOT: title:"Weight" ind:1 deps:(2) type:2d with:linespo set:"xdata time"
> timefmt:%Y-%m-%d set:"yrange [90:]"
>
> but no plot is generated. If I remove <set:"xdata time">, the plot is
> generated but without interpreting the dates as dates.
>
> Can anyone see what I do wrong?

Today I faced the same problem and I fixed it by replacing
``timefmt:%Y-%m-%d`` with ``set:"timefmt '%Y-%m-%d'".

HTH,

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