Quarter format for date in tooltips?

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Is it possible to put the tooltip date into quarter format?
On this pagehttps://help.everviz.com/article/866-working-with-tooltips
It doesn’t list it * millisecond: %L * second: %S * minute: %M * hour: %H * day: %A * week: %e * month: %B * year: %Y
but I am sure that I have seen some examples somewhere that have quarters in the tooltips

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Hi RAC Foundation

Quarter is not a built-in parameter you can use, but it’s possible to build your custom date formatter using custom code

In custom code, add the following function:

Highcharts.dateFormats = {
    q: function (timestamp) {
        var date = new Date(timestamp),
        quarter = (Math.floor(date.getUTCMonth() / 3) + 1);
        console.log(quarter);
        return quarter;
    }
};

custom code

In the tooltip field, you can now use %q to refer to this function

Example:
{point.key:Q%q/%Y}

This will show something like this:

quarter
quarter871×898 75.1 KB

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Havard

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Absolute wowzers!
It worked! There was just no way I was gong to work that out for myself!
Thanks so much!