Re: [Matplotlib-users] Format date tick labels

[Mark L. <bre...@ya...>]

On 10/10/2012 15:41, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 14:29, Benjamin Root wrote:
>>
>> I know of a few people who have difficulties with matplotlib's datetime
>> handling, but they are usually operating on the scale of milliseconds or
>> less (lightning data), in which case, one is already at the edge of the
>> resolution handled by python's datetime objects.  However, we would
>> certainly welcome any sort of examples of how matplotlib fails in handling
>> seconds scale and lower plots.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Ben Root
>>
>>
>
> I'll assume that the milliseconds above is a typo.  From
> http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html "class datetime.timedelta A
> duration expressing the difference between two date, time, or datetime
> instances to microsecond resolution."  Still, what's a factor of 1000
> amongst friends? :)
>

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0418/ has been implemented in Python 
3.3 and talks about clocks with nanosecond resolutions.  I've flagged it 
up here just in case people weren't aware.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.