# XY Chart - Overwriting 24 hour "date" format

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/xy-chart-overwriting-24-hour-date-format/98192>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [November 5, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/xy-chart-overwriting-24-hour-date-format/98192 "2024-11-05T09:50:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/xy-chart-overwriting-24-hour-date-format/98192/2 "2024-11-05T11:13:08Z")

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The XY Chart component is based on AM Charts. You can find their documentation in [Formatting dates](https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/concepts/formatters/formatting-dates/) and [Formatting date and time](https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v4/concepts/axes/date-axis/#Formatting_date_and_time). I don't think there's anything in there to help you. You might have to convert to decimal hours and just display as a number.

One last chance: Have a look at [Formatting strings](https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v4/concepts/formatters/formatting-strings/). I offered this a solution to forcing numbers to be used as category strings in my answer to [Populate Pie Chart from table data - #3 by Alejandro\_Alaco](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/populate-pie-chart-from-table-data/97660/3).

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