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.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/ticks/date_demo_convert.py"
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.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_ticks_date_demo_convert.py>`
        to download the full example code.

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_ticks_date_demo_convert.py:


=================
Date Demo Convert
=================

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 7-40



.. image-sg:: /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_date_demo_convert_001.png
   :alt: date demo convert
   :srcset: /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_date_demo_convert_001.png, /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_date_demo_convert_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import datetime

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter, DayLocator, HourLocator, drange

    date1 = datetime.datetime(2000, 3, 2)
    date2 = datetime.datetime(2000, 3, 6)
    delta = datetime.timedelta(hours=6)
    dates = drange(date1, date2, delta)

    y = np.arange(len(dates))

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot(dates, y**2, 'o')

    # this is superfluous, since the autoscaler should get it right, but
    # use date2num and num2date to convert between dates and floats if
    # you want; both date2num and num2date convert an instance or sequence
    ax.set_xlim(dates[0], dates[-1])

    # The hour locator takes the hour or sequence of hours you want to
    # tick, not the base multiple

    ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(DayLocator())
    ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(HourLocator(range(0, 25, 6)))
    ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))

    ax.fmt_xdata = DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    fig.autofmt_xdate()

    plt.show()


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_ticks_date_demo_convert.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: date_demo_convert.ipynb <date_demo_convert.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: date_demo_convert.py <date_demo_convert.py>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-zip

      :download:`Download zipped: date_demo_convert.zip <date_demo_convert.zip>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_
