diff --git a/app/src/scripts/lightweightCharts/chart/whitespace.ts b/app/src/scripts/lightweightCharts/chart/whitespace.ts
index da3b6c0ed..c1f38e635 100644
--- a/app/src/scripts/lightweightCharts/chart/whitespace.ts
+++ b/app/src/scripts/lightweightCharts/chart/whitespace.ts
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 import { dateToString, getNumberOfDaysBetweenTwoDates } from "../../utils/date";
 import { createLineSeries } from "../series/creators/line";
 
-export const DAY_BEFORE_GENESIS_DAY = "2009-01-02";
 export const GENESIS_DAY = "2009-01-03";
-// export const DAY_BEFORE_WHITEPAPER_DAY = "2008-10-30";
-// export const WHITEPAPER_DAY = "2008-10-31";
 
-const whitespaceStartDate = "1970-01-01";
-const whitespaceEndDate = "2100-01-01";
+const whitespaceStartDate = new Date("1970-01-01");
+const whitespaceStartDateYear = whitespaceStartDate.getFullYear();
+const whitespaceStartDateMonth = whitespaceStartDate.getMonth();
+const whitespaceStartDateDate = whitespaceStartDate.getDate();
+const whitespaceEndDate = new Date("2141-01-01");
 const whitespaceDateDataset: (WhitespaceData | SingleValueData)[] = new Array(
-  getNumberOfDaysBetweenTwoDates(
-    new Date(whitespaceStartDate),
-    new Date(whitespaceEndDate),
-  ),
+  getNumberOfDaysBetweenTwoDates(whitespaceStartDate, whitespaceEndDate),
 );
 // Hack to be able to scroll freely
 // Setting them all to NaN is much slower
 for (let i = 0; i < whitespaceDateDataset.length; i++) {
-  const date = new Date(whitespaceStartDate);
-  date.setUTCDate(date.getUTCDay() + i);
+  const date = new Date(
+    whitespaceStartDateYear,
+    whitespaceStartDateMonth,
+    whitespaceStartDateDate + i,
+  );
 
   const time = dateToString(date);
 
diff --git a/app/src/scripts/ws/kraken.ts b/app/src/scripts/ws/kraken.ts
index 4e040ab3f..818aadee5 100644
--- a/app/src/scripts/ws/kraken.ts
+++ b/app/src/scripts/ws/kraken.ts
@@ -30,14 +30,12 @@ export const krakenAPI = {
       const dateStr = dateToString(new Date(Number(timestamp) * 1000));
 
       const candle: DatasetCandlestickData = {
-        // date: dateStr,
         time: dateStr,
         open: Number(open),
         high: Number(high),
         low: Number(low),
         close: Number(close),
         value: Number(close),
-        // volume: Number(volume),
       };
 
       candle && callback({ ...candle });