[Gretl-devel] Re: (recession) bars in plots broken with annual data?

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 21.01.2024 um 23:26 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> >> If you try adding bars via the GUI plot dialog and select "Other" >> (to skip NBER recessions), then click "See example", you get an >> example, with a comment that includes "each non-comment line must >> contain two space-separated dates in the format YYYY:MM". If you >> supply dates in this format they will work with annual data. > > I saw that comment, but I wouldn't know what the format YYYY:MM means > with annual data. Taking the year 2020 for example, would the proper > format be 2020:00 or 2020:01 or 2020:1 or ... ? In the YYYY:MM format the monthly component runs from 01 to 12. You're being invited to utilize a higher resolution in the time dimension. Even when plotting annual data, you may happen to to know that a certain state or episode started or ended (say) half way through a year.