How to use d3.time.scale() to generate an array of evenly spaced dates?

Question

This seems like it should be trivial. I want to use d3.time.scale() to get an array of evenly spaced dates that covers a certain range of time. For example, yea

Answer 1

Using the Date() constructor doesn't work reliably -- it basically depends on the browser. It's much safer to parse explicitly. The constructor doesn't parse as such.

Instead of

var dates = getDates().map(function(d) { return new Date(d) });

use this:

var dates = getDates().map(function(d) {
    return d3.time.format("%Y-%m-%d").parse(d);
});

Modified jsfiddle here.