how to provide datetime data to series ? about rickshaw

[jshow]

my bad - I was passing a format not understood

converting the datetimes to integer did the trick

[cambridgemike]

@jshow could you post how you were able to get datetime to work for your series? Running into the same problem.

[TheBits]

You can use moment.js library.
Parse datetime http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string-format/
get the unix timestamp http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/unix-timestamp/

[jshow]

Hey Mike,

I'm using rails, and converted dates to integer

date.to_i

then converted the array series to json

series.to_json (where series is an array with [[date1.to_i, y1], [date2.to_i, y2]..]

that's it

I'm not near my code, but that's essentially it

jshow

On 2012-Apr-21, at 10:13 AM, Mike Anderson wrote:

@jshow could you post how you were able to get datetime to work for your series? Running into the same problem.

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[radiodario]

you could always use d3's date format class, parse the date string and then use getTime to obtain it as an epoch:

formatDate = d3.time.format.iso;
a = formatDate.parse('2012-02-01T20:00:00').getTime();

[praveen21]

@radiodario if i want to use above code for passing strings to the x:

can give good example.

[jufemaiz]

Just a note on the different between Javascript's Date (as used by d3.js) and the use of integer seconds since epoch.

It would be good for this to be clearly stated in the documentation. It's inferred but not explicit - and deviates from the standard being used by d3.js.