D3.js scaleTime() Function

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The d3.scaleTime() function is used to create and return a new time scale which have the particular domain and range. In this function the clamping is disabled by default.

Syntax:

d3.scaleTime([[domain, ]range]);

Parameter: This function accepts two parameters as mentioned above and described below.

Domain: It is an array of integers that defines the extent of domain values. If not specified then the default value is [2000-01-01, 2000-01-02].
Range: It is an array of integers or string. If not specified then the default value is [0, 1].

Return Value: This function returns a function.

Example 1:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="UTF-8" /> 
    <meta name="viewport" path1tent= 
        "width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0"/> 
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3-color.v1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src= 
    "https://d3js.org/d3-interpolate.v1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src= 
    "https://d3js.org/d3-scale-chromatic.v1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h2 style="color:green">Geeks for zambiatek</h2> 
    <p>d3.scaleTime() Function</p> 
    <script> 
        var time = d3.scaleTime() 
            .domain([1, 10]) 
            .range([10, 5]); 
        document.write("<h3>Type of d3.scaleTime() is: " 
            + typeof (time) + "</h3>"); 
              
        document.write("<h3>time(10): "  
            + time(10) + "</h3>"); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Example 2:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="UTF-8" /> 
    <meta name="viewport" path1tent= 
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/> 
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3-color.v1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src= 
    "https://d3js.org/d3-interpolate.v1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src= 
    "https://d3js.org/d3-scale-chromatic.v1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h2 style="color:green;">Geeks for zambiatek</h2> 
    <p>d3.scaleTime() Function </p> 
    <script> 
        var time = d3.scaleTime() 
            .domain([1, 10]) 
            .range([1, 100]) 
        document.write("<h3>time(1): " + time(1) + "</h3>") 
        document.write("<h3>time(2): " + time(2) + "</h3>") 
        document.write("<h3>time(3): " + time(3) + "</h3>") 
        document.write("<h3>time(4): " + time(4) + "</h3>") 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 