Range Bar Chart with axisY as dateTime (Workaround) - CanvasJS JavaScript Charts

Range Bar Chart with axisY as dateTime (Workaround) - CanvasJS JavaScript Charts

by canvasjs

HTML

<script src="https://canvasjs.com/assets/script/canvasjs.min.js"></script>
<br/><!-- Just so that JSFiddle's Result label doesn't overlap the Chart -->

<div id="chartContainer" style="height: 360px; width: 100%;"></div>

JavaScript

var dataPoints = [];
var chart = new CanvasJS.Chart("chartContainer",
                               {
  title: {
    text: "How long an event occurred for on a given day"
  },
  axisY:{
    minimum: (new Date(2016, 0, 28, 12, 00)).getTime(),            
    interval: (1 * 60 * 60 * 1000),
    labelFormatter: function(e){
      return CanvasJS.formatDate(e.value, "H:mm");
    },
  },
  toolTip:{
    contentFormatter: function ( e ) {
      return "<strong>" + e.entries[0].dataPoint.label + "</strong></br> Start: " +  CanvasJS.formatDate(e.entries[0].dataPoint.y[0], "H:mm") + "</br>End : " +  CanvasJS.formatDate(e.entries[0].dataPoint.y[1], "H:mm");  
    }},
  data: [
    {
      type: "rangeBar",
      dataPoints: dataPoints
    }
  ]                      
});
$.get("https://codepen.io/anon/pen/GXZNNO.js", function(data) {
  getDataPointsFromCSV(data);
  chart.render();
});

function getDataPointsFromCSV(csv) {
  var allLinesArray = csv.split("\n");
  if( allLinesArray.length > 0 ){	
    for (var i = 0; i <= allLinesArray.length-1; i++) {
      var rowData = allLinesArray[i].split(",");      
      dataPoints.push({ label: rowData[0].replace(/"/g, ''), y: [parseInt(rowData[1]), parseInt(rowData[2])]});
    }
  }
}