displaying labels on jfreechart

Question

I using a time series chart having 3 years of data. The problem is that I am not able to display the starting date as a label on the Date Axis (x axis)

For example: If I want to display data from 27th Oct, 2008 to 27th Oct, 2011, the label on the Date Axis does not start from 27th Oct, 2008, but starts from a later date.

I would like suggestions as to how to set the label to the starting date.

Any help will be appreciated.

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+----------+------------------+-
          Jan 09               April 09

I want "Oct 08" to be displayed at the intersection of x and y axis.

Answer 1

As this appears to be a DateAxis, a subclass of ValueAxis, setLowerMargin() is available. It should let you see the lower bound; you probably don't want it to be clipped at the intersection. You might also experiment with vertical dates, shown here.