Since version 1.7, there's a new bgMarks
option:
bgMarks: {
count: 0, // number of value labels to write in the background of the bar
interval: Infinity, // provide instead of count to specify the space between labels
label: id // string or function to write as the text of a label. functions are called with normalised values.
}
For your use case, you'd want (assuming you're using Moment.js):
bgMarks: {
count: 4,
label: function(val) {
return moment(val).format('HH:mm');
}
}