Custom date formats that you can display in Datawrapper

Once you've successfully uploaded your data using a correct date format, you can choose how the date appears on your chart. On the Refine tab of the Visualize step for many charts, you have the ability to choose from a drop-down menu of date/tick formats with the last option being "custom." :

Below is a table of the accepted custom date formats and how they will appear on your chart:

By combining different tokens, you can create a custom date format. You can also use punctuation marks (commas, dots, slashes, etc) between tokens, which will appear on the chart. Here is an example of using a custom date format and how it will appear in your chart:

Since MM is the month number and YYYY the full year, our result is something like "01--2003" (the "--" appears because it is written in the tick format text box). Here is how it appears on a chart:

Localized Formats

Because preferred formatting differs based on locale, there are a few tokens that can be used to format a moment based on its locale. All of these tokens are affected by the Output Locale, which can be changed in the Check and Describe step or the Design tab of the Visualize step. The US and Germany are featured in the chart below.

Here is an example of how to use a localized format:

Using the example from before, if our Output Locale is set to English (en-US), the date will appear July 1, 2003. If the Output Locale is set to Deutsch (de-DE), the date will appear 1. Juli 2003. 

For more information about working with dates and times in Datawrapper, see this article.