# How to plot more ticks in AlgebraOfGraphics or Makie?

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**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** plotting, makie, algebraofgraphics
**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-more-ticks-in-algebraofgraphics-or-makie/77261 "2022-03-01T21:35:02Z")
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I ran into this same issue too ([`LinearTicks` seems to alter the formatting for timeseries data · Issue #232 · MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/issues/232)).

I think there is work being done upstream ([https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl/pull/1347](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl/pull/1347)) so that we can handle time axes directly with Makie, but in the meantime @piever added this [convenience function](http://juliaplots.org/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/dev/API/functions/#AlgebraOfGraphics.datetimeticks) in AoG that I think is really handy:

```julia
julia> using AlgebraOfGraphics, GLMakie, Dates

julia> t = DateTime(2021, 1, 1):Month(1):DateTime(2022, 1, 1);

julia> y = randn(length(t));

julia> df = (; t, y);

julia> ticks = AlgebraOfGraphics.datetimeticks(monthname, df.t[begin:2:end]);

julia> plt = data(df) * mapping(:t, :y) * visual(Lines);

julia> draw(plt; axis=(; xticks=ticks))

```

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You can pass any formatting function you want, although you will still need to play with the array of time points that is actually passed to it

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