Add option to format dates as UTC
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Description
Currently, Plotly offers the tickformat property to specify date formats. But the results are always shown in local time. I see no way to format the dates as UTC other than manually transforming all of the dates to offset based on the current time zone so they look like the equivalent UTC time. And obviously, this is a major pain.
D3 can certainly handle UTC dates, so Plotly really needs to expose something to allow dates to be shown as UTC.
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing Plotly's tickformat date handling and compare it with D3's utcFormat behavior. Determine where a UTC-formatting option belongs, then verify that date labels render in UTC without requiring callers to transform their data.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- d3, javascript
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100