Yes it's supposed to be the number of trading days before the earning date. It's fractional so that -9.5 is the middle of the day for example. -9.9 is near the open for that day, and -9.01 is near the close.
Right now, there is a bug in the counting of the number of days for the x-axis to exclude the weekends and the holiday (the 4th of july), but your chart ASML shows the straddle RV for ASML for June 28th (today), and -9.987 is the open for today, and -9.01 is the close for today. The number 9 is wrong and off by a few days, but you get the idea.