Re: time axis

Hello,

 Can you send me an small example showing your problem ?

 Cheers, Olivier

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Marina Giunta wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to draw a plot of some value vs. time.
> I get the values from an Oracle db, then I convert the times to
> a string with the right format to be used in the TDatime
> constructor, then I convert the TDatime to time_t and I plot the
> values. The problem is that in the plot the year displayed is 2030
> instead of 2005 (day and month are OK)!
> I suspect that the TDatime::Convert() gives me the seconds since the
> EPOCH (i.e. 00:00:00 on Jan 1st 1970), while the origin of the plot time
> axis is 00:00:00 on Jan 1st 1995. Is that correct?
> If yes, which is the best way to solve this problem? Simply subtract 25
> years from my time_t value?
>
> Second question: the date I get from the Oracle db is in GMT, I'd like to
> have the local time displayed on the plot. How can I convert the values?
>
> Thanks
> MArina
>
>

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