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Better `Date` support

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript

Research direction

Start by locating the logic that parses columns named "date" before passing data to Plot, then trace how UI options are defined. Clarify the date formats and the intended column-selection behavior; done means a user can mark a column as a date and that column is parsed before reaching Plot.

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Description

Currently, only columns that are named "date" are parsed as dates before passing along to Plot. We should have some UI option to say "treat this column as a date". Maybe require YYYY-MM-DD formats, or whatever can be passed into new Date()?

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
28
Forks
3
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