Plottin noncontinuous / non linear data

[Heikki Vesalainen <hvesalai(at)I.hate.spam>]

Hi everyone!

I don't know how to explain this, but I'll try...
I made two pictures to help illustrate what I mean. They are:
http://www.hut.fi/~hvesalai/this_is_what_it_does.gif and
http://www.hut.fi/~hvesalai/this_is_what_i_want.gif

Here we go: Is there anyway to make gnuplot scale the axess so that
noncontinuous data would be plotted nicely (i.e there would be a gap or
a leap in the axes values)?  

Let's clear things up by a little example:

Say we have the following data:

x           y


02/02_12:10 14
02/02_12:11 15
02/02_12:12 17
02/02_12:13 18
02/02_12:14 15
02/02_12:15 16
02/02_12:16 17
02/02_12:17 17
02/02_12:18 18
02/02_12:19 16
03/02_12:10 17 <--- note the gap in the first (x) value
03/02_12:11 18
03/02_12:12 20
03/02_12:13 23
03/02_12:14 24
03/02_12:15 25
03/02_12:16 26
03/02_12:17 27
03/02_12:18 28
03/02_12:19 29

now if I put that in one datafile and plot it with the following
commands:

set xdata time
set timefmt '%d/%m_%H:%M'
set data style line
plot 'data' using 1:2

the result will be a picture with x-axes values:

2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2   3/2   3/2   3/2   3/2   3/2   3/2
12:00 15:00 18:00 21:00 00:00 03:00 06:00 09:00 12:00 15:00.

but what I would want is that the x-axes would have values something
like:

2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2   * 3/2   3/2   3/2   3/2   3/2
12:10 12:12 12:14 12:16 12:18 * 12:10 12:12 12:14 12:16 12:18

with the * meaning that there is a gap in the axes values..

Hmm... please see the pictures, I think my message will be quite clear
when you see them...

ps. It would be nice if you could reply to me by email

Heikki Vesalainen
wes @ clinet.fi