# Change the display of an axe

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-the-display-of-an-axe/14590
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 9, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-the-display-of-an-axe/14590 "2024-05-09T18:48:12Z")
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### Author: ![Alexandre\_Colinet](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/alexandre_colinet/32/14361_2.png) [@Alexandre\_Colinet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Alexandre_Colinet)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-the-display-of-an-axe/14590/1 "2024-05-09T18:48:12Z")

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Hello everyone, I’m new to paraview and I have a dumb question. I currently trying to plot the evolution of the bathymetry of a bassin over time. However paraview display my x-axis in second and I would like to have it display in month or year. How can i do that i didn’t manage to find anything about this until now. So to be clear I want to keep the same scaling but I want paraview to display the value divided by by a certain amount withour changing the shape of my graph. I really just want to change the labels.

Thanks for your answers !!

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### Author: ![Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kenichiro-Yoshimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenichiro-Yoshimi)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-the-display-of-an-axe/14590/3 "2024-05-10T03:34:55Z")

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Welcome to the ParaView discussion forum!

Time can be scaled using the **Scale** option of the **Temporal Shift Scale** filter. For example, if you want to change the time unit from seconds to years, you can set the **Scale** to

\frac{1}{3600×24×365.24}​=3.16889554×10^{−8}

 ![scale](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9a9be83a90a4d20d698b16c259aac214eee3f09d.png)

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### Author: ![Alexandre\_Colinet](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/alexandre_colinet/32/14361_2.png) [@Alexandre\_Colinet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Alexandre_Colinet)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-the-display-of-an-axe/14590/4 "2024-05-10T15:08:50Z")

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Thanks a lot for your answer it exactly what I wanted just to precise for futur reference that to apply this temporal scale to my plot I had to add it first to my data set !