The standard way of setting the scale range (via X/Y Axis submenu of the context menu) is not user-friendly when the axis is a DateAxisItem (e.g. the X axis in TaurusTrend widget) because the numerical values displayed and expected for the range limits are are "epoch" values.
A more user-friendly UI should be provided, ideally allowing to use both absolute and relative date strings, and possibly even using dedicated calendar/clock widgets.
As an inspiration, the UI in the old implementation in taurus.qwt5.TaurusPlotConfigDialog was quite friendly and compact (see, e.g., strtimetoepoch ).
The standard way of setting the scale range (via X/Y Axis submenu of the context menu) is not user-friendly when the axis is a
DateAxisItem(e.g. the X axis inTaurusTrendwidget) because the numerical values displayed and expected for the range limits are are "epoch" values.A more user-friendly UI should be provided, ideally allowing to use both absolute and relative date strings, and possibly even using dedicated calendar/clock widgets.
As an inspiration, the UI in the old implementation in
taurus.qwt5.TaurusPlotConfigDialogwas quite friendly and compact (see, e.g., strtimetoepoch ).