time axis control

[Diane Stokes]

Boyin,

'set tlsupp year' suppresses the year from the time axis label.  See:
   http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsettlsupp.html

     Diane


Boyin Huang wrote:

> Assuming I have climatological SST (from January to December), I want to
> plot a time series.
>
> I set "tdef 9999 Linear jan0000 1mon" in the .ctl file, the axis plotted
> is "JAN0 FEB0 ... DEC0". What I realy want is "Jan Feb ... Dec".
>
> If I set "tdef 12 Linear jan1999 1mon" in the .ctl file, the axis plotted
> is "JAN1999 FEB1999 ... DEC1999".
>
> How can I control the appearence of time axis, particularly get rid of
> the "year".
>
> Thanks
>

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Diane Stokes
Environmental Modeling Center
National Weather Service/NOAA