Re: [Matplotlib-users] Format date tick labels

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Mark Lawrence <bre...@ya...>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Ah, you are right, I meant microseconds.

With apologies to Spaceballs:

"Prepare to go to microsecond resolution!"
"No, no, microsecond resolution is too slow"
"Microsecond resolution is too slow?"
"Yes, too slow. We must use nanosecond resolution!"
"Prep-- Prepare Python, for nanosecond resolution!"

Cheers!
Ben Root