Formatting a Date and Time Axis with Specified Values

We’ve been very clever in rotating our text, but you will notice that D3 has used its own good judgment as to what format the days/date will be represented as.

Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but what if we want to put a specific format of date/time nomenclature as axis labels? No problem; D3 to the rescue again!

This is actually a pretty easy thing to do, but there are plenty of options for the formatting, so the only really tricky part is deciding ...