D3 date parse issue with timezone offset

Question

i am creating a line chart which have x-axis as time scale axis and i have to parse the date data coming from backed.

The date is coming in this format from the backend -> 2016-01-14T02:55:55.000Z

I wrote this parse function using d3 date format

var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%L");

But this piece of code not able to parse the above mentioned date format and i have to remove Z from the x-axis date data which is takes time when there are huge number of data points.

So, is there a way to handle the above mentioned date format in d3?

Answer 1

You need to specify the Z in the format string:

var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%LZ");

I would recommend using var parseDate = d3.time.format.iso; instead, as this is more forgiving .