set encoding iso_8859_15 #for euro
set terminal postscript enhanced color landscape
set output 'payout.eps'
#I use `convert -rotate 90 payout.eps payout.png` on the output
#as direct output to the png terminal is quite limited

set title "SSIA payout"
set ylabel "millions of ¤uro"
set grid ytics

set xdata time
set timefmt "%b %y"
set xrange ["May 06":"May 07"]
set format x "%b %y"
set xtics nomirror rotate
set mxtics 0
set boxwidth 0.5 relative
set style fill solid border -1
set bmargin 6
plot "payout.dat" using 1:3 notitle with boxes