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Time Cartesian Axis

The time scale is used to display times and dates. Data are spread according to the amount of time between data points. When building its ticks, it will automatically calculate the most comfortable unit base on the size of the scale.

Date Adapters

The time scale requires both a date library and a corresponding adapter to be present. Please choose from the available adapters.

Data Sets

Input Data

See data structures.

Date Formats

When providing data for the time scale, Chart.js uses timestamps defined as milliseconds since the epoch (midnight January 1, 1970, UTC) internally. However, Chart.js also supports all of the formats that your chosen date adapter accepts. You should use timestamps if you'd like to set parsing: false for better performance.

Configuration Options

Time Axis specific options

Namespace: options.scales[scaleId]

Name Type Default Description
min string|number The minimum item to display. more...
max string|number The maximum item to display. more...
adapters.date object {} Options for adapter for external date library if that adapter needs or supports options
bounds string 'data' Determines the scale bounds. more...
ticks.source string 'auto' How ticks are generated. more...
time.displayFormats object Sets how different time units are displayed. more...
time.isoWeekday boolean|number false If boolean and true and the unit is set to 'week', then the first day of the week will be Monday. Otherwise, it will be Sunday. If number, the index of the first day of the week (0 - Sunday, 6 - Saturday)
time.parser string|function Custom parser for dates. more...
time.round string false If defined, dates will be rounded to the start of this unit. See Time Units below for the allowed units.
time.tooltipFormat string The format string to use for the tooltip.
time.unit string false If defined, will force the unit to be a certain type. See Time Units section below for details.
time.stepSize number 1 The number of units between grid lines.
time.minUnit string 'millisecond' The minimum display format to be used for a time unit.

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Time Units

The following time measurements are supported. The names can be passed as strings to the time.unit config option to force a certain unit.

  • 'millisecond'
  • 'second'
  • 'minute'
  • 'hour'
  • 'day'
  • 'week'
  • 'month'
  • 'quarter'
  • 'year'

For example, to create a chart with a time scale that always displayed units per month, the following config could be used.

const chart = new Chart(ctx, {
    type: 'line',
    data: data,
    options: {
        scales: {
            x: {
                type: 'time',
                time: {
                    unit: 'month'
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

Display Formats

You may specify a map of display formats with a key for each unit:

  • millisecond
  • second
  • minute
  • hour
  • day
  • week
  • month
  • quarter
  • year

The format string used as a value depends on the date adapter you chose to use.

For example, to set the display format for the quarter unit to show the month and year, the following config might be passed to the chart constructor.

const chart = new Chart(ctx, {
    type: 'line',
    data: data,
    options: {
        scales: {
            x: {
                type: 'time',
                time: {
                    displayFormats: {
                        quarter: 'MMM YYYY'
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

Ticks Source

The ticks.source property controls the ticks generation.

  • 'auto': generates "optimal" ticks based on scale size and time options
  • 'data': generates ticks from data (including labels from data {x|y} objects)
  • 'labels': generates ticks from user given labels ONLY

Parser

If this property is defined as a string, it is interpreted as a custom format to be used by the date adapter to parse the date.

If this is a function, it must return a type that can be handled by your date adapter's parse method.

Min Max Configuration

For both the min and max properties, the value must be string that is parsable by your date adapter or a number with the amount of miliseconds that have elapsed since UNIX epoch. In the example below the x axis will start at 7 October 2021.

let chart = new Chart(ctx, {
    type: 'line',
    data: {
        datasets: [{
            data: [{
                x: '2021-11-06 23:39:30',
                y: 50
            }, {
                x: '2021-11-07 01:00:28',
                y: 60
            }, {
                x: '2021-11-07 09:00:28',
                y: 20
            }]
        }],
    },
    options: {
        scales: {
            x: {
                min: '2021-11-07 00:00:00',
            }
        }
    }
});

Internal data format

Internally time scale uses milliseconds since epoch