Re: time axis

From: Brett Viren <bv_at_bnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:19:08 -0400


Marina Giunta <giunta_at_mail.cern.ch> writes:

> The problem is that in the plot the year displayed is 2030
> instead of 2005 (day and month are OK)!

I had the same problem recently. It was resolved in this thread:

http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk05/0474.html

Summary: add this line:

    gStyle->SetTimeOffset(0);

> 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?

A kludge which might even work would be to use the above SetTimeOffset() but with the delta between GMT and whatever timezone you want. But, there must be a better way....

-Brett. Received on Wed Apr 27 2005 - 16:19:21 MEST

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