How to format the raw date formats when using Google Analytic Reports? I am using Google Chart Tools, Views, and Google Analytic Reports to create charts for an admin dashboard.

However the date format (Time Dimensions: ga:date) outputs the date in the YYYYMMDD format.

How can I change that to something like Oct 31?

Note: I have been asking around and apparently NO ONE knows how to do this. Here are some relevant URLs about it:


Date Format in Views, related to the Views Dataviz with Google Charts API module.
Google analytics with views and google chart tools, related to the Google Chart Tools module.
Format time duration (not the exact same issue, pretty close).
Feature request #1900994 (from early 2013), with title "Date Format in Views", seems to have been delivered (fixed) near the end of 2014 via issue #2368159, with title "Add support for datapoints types". Refer to description of the issue for more details about it (the problem description, and the actual solution that got implemented).

Issue #2368159 also resolved the issue about Format time duration, a typical variation of the question here.