How to set the date range of the range command?

[petercreateParticipant]

I want to set a specific date range to highlight a range. It seems not possible to directly use the date, but have to change dates to numbers and confer the numbers in the interval blanks. Is there an easier way?

[dgteamModerator]

You can refer to dates in any field that also accepts numbers using the following format:  yyyy:mm:dd

Here is an example with the Range command where (xmin, xmax) is set to (2000:02:01, 2000:03:01).

You can also enter dates as variables:

[sandriftParticipant]

Thank you!  I was trying to figure this out myself the other day, and resorted to seconds for my x-axis bounds (ugh).

Is this specific formatting/capability documented in the PDF Manual?  I couldn’t find anything about how to format dates in numeric fields, only columns (where there is a lot of info about that in the manual).

Thanks again.

[petercreateParticipant]

Thank you.

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