echarts: bar chart start at value? - echarts

Question

echarts: bar chart bars are located left and right of the value on the category axis:
How to tell echarts to start the bar with the value on the category axis? Like this:
To clarify the problem, here ist another example. This is a chart of the hourly sum of precipitation. Every bar should show the sum from the bottom to the top of the hour, the data values are conencted to every bottom of the hour.
as you can see, the bars are not starting at 8:00, they are starting at 7:30.
Data: (timestamps are shown in CET)
series: [
{
name: "Niederschlag",
type: "bar",
data: [[1608534000000, 3], [1608537600000, 5], [1608541200000, 2], [1608544800000, 0], [1608548400000, 1] ],
barWidth: '100%'
}
]
It should look like this:

Answer 1

Start point of bar here doesn't matter, you need align labels to left: https://echarts.apache.org/en/option.html#series-bar.label.align

Answer 2

you need a hidden xAxis like below:
option = {
xAxis: [{
type: 'category',
data: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23],
show: false
}, {
type: 'category',
data: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24],
boundaryGap: false,
axisTick: { alignWithLabel: true },
position: 'bottom'
}],
yAxis: {
type: 'value'
},
series: [{
data: [120, 200, 150, 80, 70, 110, 130,120,210,110,210],
type: 'bar',
barCategoryGap:'20%',
itemStyle: {
},
xAxisIndex: 0,
backgroundStyle: {
color: 'rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.8)'
}
}]
};

Answer 3

You have not provided the complete chart config, so I recommend using this one. Also pay attention on method useUTC and you need to know that "By default, echarts uses local timezone to formate time labels"
So I see this state of Chart by you data with offset -180:
var myChart = echarts.init(document.getElementById('chart'));
var chartData = [
[1608534000000, 3],
[1608537600000, 5],
[1608541200000, 2],
[1608544800000, 0],
[1608548400000, 1],
];
var option = {
tooltip: {},
xAxis: {
type: 'time',
data: ['00:00', '01:00', '02:00', '03:00', '04:00', '05:00', '06:00', '07:00', '08:00', '09:00', '10:00', '11:00', '12:00', '13:00', '14:00', '15:00', '16:00', '17:00', '18:00', '19:00', '20:00', '21:00', '22:00', '23:00'],
splitNumber: 24,
},
yAxis: {
type: 'value'
},
series: [{
name: "Niederschlag",
type: "bar",
data: chartData,
barWidth: '100%',
}],
useUTC: false,
};
myChart.setOption(option);
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/echarts#4.9.0/dist/echarts.min.js"></script>
<div id="chart" style="width: 1024px;height:400px;"></div>