Hi Rene,
One note about present implementation of time axis labels.
Frankly speaking its drawing algorithm has to be improved and
the most important is to set a right behavior of time label
appearance. For example if now you want to see months on the
axis, a label for a new month will appear on the axis in a place
where it fits axis division proportions but not in the beginning
of the month. The latter is very important if one wants to work
with real world time series. The same goes for years, hours etc.
A simple picture illustrates what I am saying:
1) Current time label implementation
October, November,
10th 12
-------|------------|------->
Oct Nov
2) Required
October, November,
1st 1st
-------|------------|------->
Oct Nov
I understand that some work around has to be done and I hope this
work can coinside with Rene's work around string labels. But again,
picture 1) is what happens in ROOT now and it is very bad because
it brings a lot of misunderstanding, i.e. if a user sees label
named "Oct 98", the user thinks of course that October 98 data
start at this label but this is not true since it can be any day
in October, perhaps October 31, depending on how current algorithm
divides axis to draw labels.
Damir, can you also comment this since you are the author of the
current implementation?
Regards,
Anton
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