Re: Octave plot on time/date x-axis

[Bill Denney]

David Bateman wrote:
> Bill Denney wrote:
>> If you install the financial package, you can use the dateaxis command
>> which likely does what you're wanting to do.
>
> How does dateaxis differ from the dateticks function?  Taking a quick
> look at the matlab help pages, I can see that much of a difference in
> them. Perhaps we should migrate dateaxis to Octave as the dateticks
> command and make dateaxis depend on dateticks?

It differs in that I didn't know about it when I was implementing
dateaxis.  You're right that it's a good idea to migrate it to Octave
and have dateaxis be a call to datetick.  I probably won't be able to do
it soon, though because I'm moving in the next 1.5 weeks.

Have a good day,

Bill