To Show non-Gregorian Calendars

[mbande]

Hello all,
Use Case: I need to show some charts in client calendar system (e.g. Jalali)
The Problem: digging the docs, i can't figure out how to do that,
Possible Solutions: i know this is possible in some other charting libraries (e.g. Hicharts via a plugin which uses JDate itself, or for others that use Moment.js internally, there is a moment-jalaali plugin)
Workaround: even the input data and internal calculations can be normally in current Calendar system, but before rendering, it can be a formatter function/hook (dateformat) that do the actual conversion.

I wonder if there is a solution/workaround for the awesome Plotly.
any help would be highly appreciated.

[etpinard]

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Implementation questions should be asked on Stack Overflow (tagged plotly) or on community.plot.ly (tagged plotly-js).

[etpinard]

To answer your question, the best workaround for this would be to convert your dates into numbers and show custom tickvals and ticktext on your independent axis.

[mbande]

thank you @etpinard,
could it be a dateformat or like in future releases?
can you label this issue as a feature request?

[etpinard]

If we end doing it, it won't be be part of this project. Adding a dependency on moment.js would blow up our already-big bundle size.

[mbande]

@etpinard your workaround worked! thank you
about feature implementation, simpler alternatives could be taken.
e.g. tickformat could be allowed to take a function, inside that, user can do anything

[mdtusz]

We're open to pull requests :)

[alexcjohnson]

closed in #1220