NAME¶

pltimefmt - Set format for date / time labels

SYNOPSIS¶

pltimefmt(fmt)

DESCRIPTION¶

Sets the format for date / time labels. To enable date / time format labels see the options to plbox(3plplot) and plenv(3plplot). Redacted form: pltimefmt(fmt) This function is used in example 29.

ARGUMENTS¶

fmt (const char *, fmt)

This string is passed directly to the system strftime. See the system documentation for a full list of conversion specifications for your system. All conversion specifications take the form of a '%' character followed by further conversion specification character. All other text is printed as-is. Common options include: %c: The preferred date and time representation for the current locale. %d: The day of the month as a decimal number. %H: The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock. %j: The day of the year as a decimal number. %m: The month as a decimal number. %M: The minute as a decimal number. %S: The second as a decimal number. %y: The year as a decimal number without a century. %Y: The year as a decimal number including a century.

 

 

AUTHORS¶

Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot. This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO¶

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.