The financetime scale takes the input data and converts to linear and plots time on the axis. The outcome is quite interesting. This scale is particularly of use not just for simple time series data, but more importantly for charts which are dependent on price movement, think Point & Figure, Line break, Kagi, Renko.

scale provides ticks of the format

- Start of year as `YYYY` e.g. 2013
- Start of Quarter as `mmm YYYY` e.g. Oct 2013
- Start of Month `as mmm` e.g. Nov
- Start of Week as `dd mmm` e.g. 25 Nov
- day as `a dd` e.g. Wed 27