[Matplotlib-users] Controlling the number of displayed digits in time axis labels

[Thomas Caswell]

The defaults will be improved in 2.0 (see
http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/users/dflt_style_changes.html#autodateformatter-format-strings
 )

Can you provide a more complete example of what you are doing that is not
working?

Tom

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM William Ray Wing <wrw at mac.com> wrote:

> I need to plot some time series data in which the time axis is specified
> by numpy/pandas 64-bit date-time values.  I’m only interested in hours,
> minutes, and seconds, and the seconds value is only accurate to
> hundredths.  I’m formatting the time axis as:
>
> x_format = mathplotlib.dates.DateFormatter('%H:%M:%S’)
>
> which gives me hours, minutes, and seconds, BUT gives me six digits of
> bogus precision after the seconds decimal point.  Is there any way to
> truncate those six digits to three.  I’ve tried several Google searches,
> but have been unsuccessful in coming up with anything.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
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