# Aligning Tick Marks with Data in Time Series Chart

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/aligning-tick-marks-with-data-in-time-series-chart/78827>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/aligning-tick-marks-with-data-in-time-series-chart/78827 "2023-09-06T17:47:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pico\_Sankari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pico\_Sankari](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Pico_Sankari)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/aligning-tick-marks-with-data-in-time-series-chart/78827/1 "2023-09-06T17:47:23Z")

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I'm using the time series chart in perspective and want my tick marks aligned with my data. The data is logged most days at midnight so I just want a corresponding tick mark for each day. Trying to play with the number of tick marks doesn't work and yields something like this (this chart has a tick mark for each day elapsed:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/c/dcc578114630ea49babfe6304d2facab5dc3cd0c.png)  
The offsets between the edge of the chart and the first tick mark throw this off. When I change tickCount to 0 I get this:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/d/ada14a2c424973fed42f7244c359eec75af6c490.png)  
This is almsot what I want, but it has two tick marks for each day. Is there a property I can change to get the tick marks aligned how I want them?