DateScale

represents the canonical mapping of continuous dates and times to a quantitative scale.

Details and Options

DateScale is typically used as a setting for ScalingFunctions to create plots and charts with date- or time-scaled axes.
DateScale takes the following options:
DateFunction how to interpret values as dates

DateTicksFormat how to format dates used as tick labels
The function f in DateFunctionf should return DateObject[…] when applied to the coordinate values.

Examples

Dates are automatically formatted in the axes:

Wolfram Language code: ListLinePlot[IconizedObject[«date values»], ScalingFunctions -> {DateScale[], None}]

Specify how the dates should be formatted:

Wolfram Language code:

ListLinePlot[IconizedObject[«date values»], ScalingFunctions -> {DateScale[DateTicksFormat -> {"MonthShort", "/", "Day"}], None}]

Specify that the dates should be taken to be month, then day:

Wolfram Language code: data = {{"01-01", 1}, {"01-02", 2}, {"01-03", 3}, {"01-04", 4}, {"01-05", 5}, {"01-06", 6}, {"01-07", 5}, {"01-08", 6}};

Wolfram Language code: ListLinePlot[data, ScalingFunctions -> {DateScale[DateFunction -> (DateObject[{#, {"Month", "-", "Day"}}]&)], None}]

Reverse the order and use day, then month, for the dates:

Wolfram Language code: ListLinePlot[data, ScalingFunctions -> {DateScale[DateFunction -> (DateObject[{#, {"Day", "-", "Month"}}]&)], None}]

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	DateFunction	how to interpret values as dates
	DateTicksFormat	how to format dates used as tick labels