title: Zedgraph - how to customize date based X-Axis tics
body: <p><strong>SITUATION</strong>
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8L2P.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I am building a chart using ZedGraph of price (Y axis) against time (X axis). The duration of time is three years.</p>
  
  <p>At the moment I'm getting X axis labels of : Jan 11; Jan 12; Jan 13 for a set of data that runs from 3-Mar-2010 to 2-Mar-2013.</p>
  
  <p>As far as I can see this is default behaviour if the axis is of type DateTime.</p>
  
  <p><strong>QUESTION</strong></p>
  
  <p>How do I change the X axis labelling so that I get: Mar 11; Mar 12; Mar 13 ? And more generally so that I can change the labels used to coincide with the start/end month of the data.</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>My initial attempt at this question was a little ambiguous so I'm just going to try to clarify.</p>
  
  <p>It's not that I want the labels to be dd-MMM-yy - what I want is to able to control the locations on the X axis where the labels/tics appear.</p>
  
  <p>So that, for an X-axis that spanned 3-Mar-2010 to 2-Mar-2013, instead of the labels always appearing in January </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Jan 11 [that is January 2011]; </li>
  <li>Jan 12 [that is January 2012]; </li>
  <li>Jan 13 [that is January 2013) </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>as shown in my screen dump I can choose which month the label/tic appears in . So for that data set I would like to have labels at :</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>March 2010 (appearing as Mar10)</li>
  <li>March 2011 (appearing as Mar11)</li>
  <li>March 2012 (appearing as Mar12)</li>
  <li>March 2013 (appearing as Mar13)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I hope that's clearer.</p>