[Gretl-devel] Re: x-range for scatters using daily data

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote: > Hi all, > > the following script yields a plot for which the x-range goes far > beyond 2020-02-28 when using daily data. I use latest git version on > Ubuntu 19.10. > > <hansl> > clear > set verbose off > > nulldata 40 > setobs 7 2020-01-20 > delete index > series a = normal() > series b = normal() > > list L = dataset > # x-axis shows all the way long up to 2021 > scatters L --with-lines --output=display > </hansl> Yes, that's not good. Handling daily data via "scatters" in time series mode is not so easy. The problem is "fixed" in current git, but the fix could perhaps be improved: right now what happens is that the x-axis just gives the 1-based numbers of the observations.

Maybe we could find a way to show dates, but there's not much space available in "scatters". At least now we don't over-extend the x-axis.