Maybe this is closer to your liking:
#! perl -slw
use strict;
use Time::Local qw[ timelocal ];
use POSIX qw[ strftime ];
use GD::Graph::points;
my @x_vals = (
'2012-11-07',
'2012-11-08',
'2012-11-15',
'2012-11-19',
'2012-11-30',
);
my @y_vals = (
11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
);
# -------------------------------------------
my @epoch_x_vals = map {
my( $y, $m, $d ) = split /-/, $_;
timelocal( 0,0,0, $d, $m, $y );
} @x_vals;
my @data = (\@epoch_x_vals, \@y_vals);
sub x_number_formatter { return strftime "%Y-%m-%d", localtime shift;
+}
my $graph = GD::Graph::points->new(400, 300);
$graph->set(
x_label => 'X label',
x_labels_vertical => 1,
x_tick_number => 5, # experimented with this value a bit
x_min_value => $epoch_x_vals[ 0 ] - 1e6,
x_max_value => $epoch_x_vals[ 4 ] + 1e6,
x_number_format => \&x_number_formatter,
y_label => 'Y label',
title => 'some title',
) or die $graph->error;
my $gd = $graph->plot(\@data) or die $graph->error;
open(my $img, '> plot.png') or die $!;
binmode $img;
print $img $gd->png;
close $img;
system 'plot.png';
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