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## timecolumn

timecolumn(N,"timeformat") reads string data starting at column N as a time/date value and uses "timeformat" to interpret this as "seconds since the epoch" to millisecond precision. If no format parameter is given, the format defaults to the string from set timefmt. This function is valid only in the using specification of a plot or stats command. See plot datafile using.