Best way to graph timeseries data?

[savraj]

What's the best practice for timeseries data in chart.js? We have some ideas. Would be nice if Chart took javascript Date objects.

[bebraw]

I'm not sure if this (Date objects) is something vanilla Chart.js should support. There is no universally accepted way to display dates. It all depends on locale.

Can you elaborate on your ideas? I'm plotting some time series myself so it could be interesting to discuss. :)

[nnnick]

Chart.js won't do date formatting for you - the amount of possibilities and locales are so vast it fits well beyond the scope of the project - in face there are libraries just for different formatting of javascript dates. One good example could be something like http://momentjs.com/.

For plotting data you should use seconds/minutes/hours as most appropriate for your data. You can customise how you format this in your interpolated JS string for labels - scaleLabel. For chart labels, you should just use formatted strings as you see most fit.