Re: [ROOT] strange year when drawing with TAxis::SetTimeAxis()

From: Damir Buskulic (buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 21:44:08 MET 

Hi Mike,

You should set the time offset to 0 via
gStyle->SetTimeOffset(0);

Time offset is here to be able to plot small time scales (seconds)
beginning at any time (9 digit seconds for UTC)

Cheers

Damir

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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Mike Kordosky wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm making a plot with time on the horizontal axis.  The test code uses
> the following dates:
> 
> Start time: Tue Jan  1 00:00:00 2002
> 
> End time: Wed Jan  1 00:00:00 2003
> 
> Point 1: Mon Apr  1 00:00:00 2002
> 
> Point 2: Sat Jun  1 00:00:00 2002
> 
> The function used to print these here is std::asctime().
> 
> I use the listed start and end times, in time_t format, to set the axis
> limits of a TH1F and then I fill the two points (also in time_t format).
> Upon drawing the histogram I see the year 2027 rather than 2002 (or 2003).
> 
> Can someone point out my error?
> 
> I've included my test code which compiles and runs with my system which
> is:
> 
> RedHat 7.2 on a pc
> GCC 3.2
> ROOT from CVS on Nov 6, 2002, 2050 geneva time.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Kordosky
> 
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