On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:46 PM, NA <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't understand.
>
> Are you saying that you never supported plotting data vs time?
>
> Plotting data vs time is *extremely* common


I agree, and still, the fact is that it was never supported. See
here<http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/linechart.html#Data_Format>,
for example.


> (I can't believe I even
> have to type this out).  Your current charts do this just fine,
> without any problems.  There is no reason to change that.  Why would
> you put in a change to break that?


I disagree about the "without any problems" parts. The support we intend to
add (and doesn't exist at the moment) is important to many users.

There's no reason not to have
> dates with bar, column, or candlestick charts.  In fact, using strings
> is odd - their sorting properties aren't the same as for dates, which
> makes handling things like axis direction awkward.
>

The email suggests a quick solution to converting these values to string
using a DataView, so you won't have any sorting issues.

We plot data vs time in nearly all of our charts.  If you break this
> functionality, you will essentially have killed our company.  The
> sheer number of charts and graphs we will need to go through to check,
> adjust, and hack around for this change is overwhelming; we just can't
> do it before your release.  Our application will break, and we won't
> be able to do anything for our clients in any reasonable amount of
> time.
>

Please take a minute to look at the suggestions we made (using a DataView).
It's a very easy and quick change. How many charts are we talking about?


> Please do not do this.
>
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