# I want to figure out how to plot a line chart without the characters in the plot below

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**Created:** [13 December 2020 10:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-want-to-figure-out-how-to-plot-a-line-chart-without-the-characters-in-the-plot-below/37442 "2020-12-13T10:33:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [13 December 2020 12:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-want-to-figure-out-how-to-plot-a-line-chart-without-the-characters-in-the-plot-below/37442/8 "2020-12-13T12:16:22Z")

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I said previously that I assumed that you were plotting against time? Is that correct? If so then the problem is clear. You can see that the first item in the array has x as a string containing " 1" whereas it should be the timestamp either in javascript ticks (msec) or as an ISO date string.

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