[Gretl-users] gretl fails to import time series data from csv

Hi, As in the documentation, I am trying to import data to gretl from a csv file. The data is monthly, so it looks something like this: ,shillerRet,state,consSentiment,PMI 1987:02,0.0045773162,1,90.4,54.9 1987:03,0.004080661,1,90.2,52.6 1987:04,0.0045113495,1,90.8,55 1987:05,0.0050701111,1,92.8,55.5 1987:06,0.004516603,1,91.1,57.2 (...) but gretl fails to interpret is as timeseries data: parsing /home/ga1009/PhD/cpp/pmi/gretlInput.csv... using delimiter ',' longest line: 43 characters number of columns = 5 number of variables: 4 number of non-blank lines: 297 scanning for variable names... line: ,shillerRet,state,consSentiment,PMI scanning for row labels and data... the cell for variable 3, obs 294 is empty: treating as missing value the cell for variable 3, obs 295 is empty: treating as missing value the cell for variable 3, obs 296 is empty: treating as missing value first row label "1987:02", last label "2011:09" trying to parse row labels as dates... 1987: probably a year... month 02? 1987:01: not a consistent date but the dates are not complete and consistent treating these as undated data Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Grzegorz