Date/Time Stamp

[Miles Woodard]

Matt,
I had a similar problem.  My workaround replaces the month labels with
numbers and gets rid of the year.  Try:

set xaxis 1 12 1

Miles


On 12/14/05 1:08 PM, "Matt Georgescu" <matt1 at CEP.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:

> Fellow GrADS users,
>
> I have a long-term daily-mean precipitation dataset covering the US from
> which I've calculated the yearly evolution of domain-averaged
> precipitation (to show a time series) overlayed with a 7-day running
> mean.
>
> My question is this:  the x-axis correctly shows the labels as Jan|Feb|Mar
> etc. as I would like them to appear.  Unfortunately, the year (that
> must be included in the .ctl file) appears just below the "Jan" on the
> x-axis.
>
> Since the time plot I'm showing is really a mean over an extended period
> of time, I'd like to remove the "year" that appears below "Jan".
>
> Is there an easy way to do this other than turning the x-labels off and
> re-writing them manually?
>
> thanks,
> matt
>

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