# Chart with date on y axis

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-with-date-on-y-axis/9593>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 23, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-with-date-on-y-axis/9593 "2015-01-23T00:43:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-with-date-on-y-axis/9593/1 "2015-01-23T00:43:41Z")

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I want to setup chart with a category axis on the x axis and date on the y axis. can this be done?

Everytime I try i get an error say something like

> [@](#):
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> Jan 22, 2015 cannot be converted to date

but when i look at the data set the column is a date and it is displayed as 01/22/2015 16:42

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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-with-date-on-y-axis/9593/2 "2015-02-02T18:24:01Z")

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I figured this one out. you need to have the date represented in milliseconds from the epoch in GMT which is 01/01/1970