Chart is converting my dates

[Lyle 3M]

I have a chart that is pulling data from a web service.  That data has Dates in it, and if I use that date object as a label, the chart think's it's in GMT time and then changes the hours to match the local time.  In my case, I'm in Central Time Zone, so it's 6 hours off from GMT, so it subtracts 6 hours from the ReadingDate and displays it as 6 hours off.  Is there any way to stop the label formatting from changing the datetime?

  $("#ChartContents").kendoChart({
    theme: $(document).data("kendoSkin") || "default",
    dataSource: App.ChartDataSource,
    title: { text: "Energy Usage In Days", visible: false },
    seriesDefaults: { type: "line" },
    series:
    [
      { type: "line", field: "kWh", name: App.CurrentDeviceName, axis: "WattAxis", color: "#FF9900" },
      { type: "line", field: "kWh2", name: App.CurrentDeviceName2, axis: "WattAxis", color: "#339900" },
    ],
    categoryAxis: {
      labels: { rotation: -90, dateFormats: { minutes: "HH:mm", hours: "HH:mm", days: "ddd, MMM d", months: "MMM yyyy", years: "yyyy" } },
      type: "Date",
      field: "ReadingDate",
      baseUnit: App.DayChartBaseUnit,
      majorGridLines: { visible: false }
    },
    valueAxis: [{ name: "WattAxis", title: { text: "kWh" }, min: 0, color: "#FF9900" }],
    tooltip: { visible: true, format: "{0:N0}", template: "Date: #= dataItem.DisplayDate # <br />kWh 1: #= dataItem.kWh # <br />kWh 2: #= dataItem.kWh2 #" },
    legend: { position: "bottom" }
  });

[Hristo Germanov]

Hi Lyle 3M,

The problem comes from that the mvc serialize date as ticks but you can try to pass your date as a string in this format:

yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM

Or you can add 6 hours to each date that you pass to the chart.

Hope this helps you.

Greetings,
Hristo Germanov
the Telerik team