This is the number 1 issue that's currently bugging me about Visualizations

This feature is also very usefule for my work

it's a major drawback that the visualization does'nt support time.

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Good to see this has been assigned. Is this something that is likely to be in the next

release candidate?

Is there a way to track this issue so we'll be informaed if/when it gets resolved? 
I LOVE the motion charts, but the lack of hour and minute time units means I can't

use it in many of the places I want to.

I'd even like to see seconds resolution.  This could be very useful for scientific web

apps.  Thank you!

I'm also enjoying the easy-to-deploy awesomeness of this. I'd hope to see the
priority of this issue raised, since it almost blocks the usage of the Motion Charts
with finer grained timedata.

I like the Motion Chart a lot as well, but the fact that no year lower then 1900 can
be added. Or the no other scale then a date can be used is a big problem. Hope this
can be changed.

Please fix this. I can't use at the moment because the lack of the time (hour, min,
sec) component.

yes, please add at some sort of hour, min, sec. 

Or also you could allow the time-axis value be a string and it would be on the user
to add them in order and space them correctly. That way you wouldn't have to
anticipate everyone's possible date/time format needs.

Just an idea.

Is there any future plan to add this feature? [It's the most requested featured]
Any chance to have access to the code to help/hack it?

by the way, the motion chart does support date js objects with hour, minutes and seconds
resolution, but 
apparently the problem is how they manage data interpolation [by day, not by points]

Please fix this. Also I can't use at the moment because the lack of the time (hour,
min, sec) component.

Any chance you would accept a sequence other than date/time in this chart?  It would
useful to show split times over a specified distance (for example: 1-26.2 for a marathon)

I can just add my comment, plz add support for hours, minutes, seconds. If you'd have
that, it would be perfect for my need!!!
Thx

It would be very nice to have support for hours, minutes, seconds!!

please add support for this, It would be awesome to have any variable instead of just
day year 

As others said, support of timeline (hh:mm:ss) would be very useful

more granularity would be appreciated :)

This widget needs to accept all datetime values that would be valid for the javascript
date() function.

15. sept 2009....still no fix for this. Could anyone from google comment on this? Would
be VERY useful to have this fixed.

How can we change the priority to high from low? Using hours as time series are so common
in preclinical drug evaluations. 

Maybe more comments will do it :)

I think this would greatly improve the motion chart. There are several things I would
like to see plotted within an hour or a day.

I would love to use Motion charts on my site but I can't because I need the datetime
format and the api only accept date format at this time. This feature should be the
top priority. A lot of people are waiting for it.

I would also love to be able to use an arbitrary sequence variable as the animation
variable. 
This feature would open up a whole new world for creative uses of this amazing chart.

Hi,

I also think it would be great if you could add support for this. 

At the moment it cannot be used for real-time analysis. Daily/ yearly trends are about
all you can do and this is only good for analyzing peak values not profiles. 

The annotated timeline can plot datetime so I don't see why not this chart, 

Peter 

Hey google. Shit or get off the pot. If you're not going to fix the issues with this
package, then open source it so that we can do what we need to with it. 

Just started working with these charts... flabbergasted that hours/minutes/seconds isn't
supported.

I want to use this chart in my page, but at moment i cant because it doesnt support
hour, min, sec...

Really interested in using this for my site. Was looking for something like Gapminder
that I could use on a h:mm:ss scale...

Posting a comment to this forum is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME.

Google should just delete this forum so it does waste any more time.

I agree with aj.barker.  Google should open source the code.

Google: Please stop ignoring us.

First the sad news: the MotionChart, as it is implemented in flash, is being deprecated.
 Just as for the AnnotatedTimeLine chart, we don't have the resources to continue enhancing
the flash-based charts, though we will make security-related fixes as required.

But the good news is that I think I can implement a MotionChart using SVG-based corecharts
with a modification of the ChartRangeFilter, and then it will support many more types
of charts, and types of values on both axes.  I've started working on this, thanks,
in part, to the numerous requests in this forum.  

We are monitoring this forum, as well as all the others we know about.  You'll have
to believe me that there is a lot of work on our plates, and we are adjusting priorities
as we figure out where our efforts will be most effective. 

As it seems no one else has mentioned: Thanks for the update!

Any more progress?

Thanks for your continuing interest and patience.  The project to reimplement the MotionChart
is progressing, and I've got the basics working internally.  Before the actual release
of the new version, there will be a series of smaller feature enhancements and bug
fixes to enable the new implementation. in the areas of the Dashboard, Controls, and
animation.  I am anticipating the new version will be available in about two months.

I echo Valentin. This is really good news and I appreciate the update. Thanks

Excellent! Thanks for your work!

Yes, much appreciated.

Great that's awesome. 
Not sure if this is the right place for a feature request: 

What would be really handy is the ability to change the background of the Motionchart.
We have data that has longitude and latitude information and it would be really cool
if it was possible to put the circles on a Google Maps or at least a static map. 

@uemit, interesting idea.  It would be better to post as a separate feature request
so people could find it from the subject line.  But making the new motion chart background
transparent will allow you to overlay it on another display, such as Google Maps, or
a GeoChart.

Just saying, after four years Google is still unable to chart motion in hours and minutes.

We're busy flooding here in our county and I spent the better part of a night trying
to plot flood data in motion to help people understand the movement (and danger) of
water. Only to find, unbelieving, the motion chart does not support anything less than
a day.

What would Hans say? What are your priorities?

at this point there's no hope for google to support this; try to write your own with
D3.js , starting from this good example http://brettwgreen.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/motion-chart-using-d3-js/

ciao

i agree that at this point it is hopeless for google to fix this - i think it is probably
the gapminder source code they bought, not their own or soemthing.
but still - it is worth nagging about this - and yes, better go with d3js

It's been less than two months since 'dlalibe' suggested the new version would be two
months away. I am still hoping!

If you just need a way of visualising, you can just use a number instead of
a date time and calculate the number of seconds since the start that you're
interested in.

I've done this many times and it works fine.

I'm still hopeful that the guys are working on a new release with revised
technology and I'll continue to use this version as long as I can.



On 13 September 2013 22:35,
<google-visualization-api-issues@googlecode.com>wrote:

We are still working on the new motion chart, but I took a month out to replace the
AnnotatedTimeLine chart, which is also written in Flash.  I'm just about done with
that work so I expect I will resume work on the new motion chart.

Thanks. I appreciate the update. 

Dear dlilabe,

I do not want to seem impatient or anything, I only want to ask about the reimplementation
of MotionChart, how are things working, is there a way to help testing or anything
the Community could do to help you guys. Also, the new AnnotatedTimeLine chart can
be checked somewhere!

Have a great day!

I had to fix a bunch of memory leaks, in order to support the new annotated timeline
and the new motion chart, so progress is being made.  Nothing is available just yet,
but soon.

Any update on this? We are looking forward to hour / minute time units for years.

Hi.  Any update?  Hours, minutes, seconds would be very useful for motion charts.

We are about to release the new AnnotationChart, after which I can resume work on the
new MotionChart.

Fantastic! Thanks for the update. Much appreciated.
On 13 Jan 2014 16:36, <google-visualization-api-issues@googlecode.com>
wrote:

Hi. SO, is the new AnnotationChart released? thx.

Yes, the AnnotationChart was released, and the doc is at: https://devsite.googleplex.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/annotationchart

We are still doing more work on it, however, so the motion chart work is deferred for
some time.

Any updates on the hour, minute, second functionality?
It would be greatly appreciated if there is a progress update on this.