Re: org-plot and timestamps

["Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Charles Sebold <csebold@gmail.com> writes:

> Has anybody done anything meaningful with timestamps in a table that is
> being org-plotted?  I've got my X axis made up of a table column of
> org-mode timestamps and I'd like org-plot to send this data to gnuplot
> as time data (which gnuplot treats in specific ways).
>
> If nobody has done this, I'll try to figure something out, and maybe
> update Worg with a how-to for this or a patch to support this out of the
> box, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around gnuplot's syntax at
> the moment.

Great idea, please do share if you get anything working.  I second that
time data can be a pain in gnuplot, but then all the more reason to add
support to org-plot to avoid having to deal with gnuplot directly.

If you get something working with org-mode dates, I think it would
certainly make sense to include it in org-plot, so that it handles
timestamps "out of the box".

Tally Ho -- Eric