Editing the date formatting of x-axis tick labels in matplotlib

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I am looking to edit the formatting of the dates on the x-axis  The picture below shows how they appear on my bar graph by default  I would like to remove the repetition of  Dec  and  2012  and just have the actual date numbers along the x-axis   Any suggestions as to how I can do this

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From the package matplotlib dates as shown in this example the date format can be applied to the axis label and ticks for plot  Below I have given an example for labeling axis ticks for multiplots import matplotlib pyplot as plt import matplotlib dates as mdates import pandas as pd  df   pd read csv  US temp csv   plt plot df  Date   df f  MINT   label  Min Temp    plt plot df  Date   df f  MAXT   label  Max Temp    plt legend           Use the below functions         dtFmt   mdates DateFormatter   b     define the formatting plt gca   xaxis set major formatter dtFmt    apply the format to the desired axis plt show    As simple as that

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While the answer given by Paul H shows the essential part  it is not a complete example  On the other hand the matplotlib example seems rather complicated and does not show how to use days    So for everyone in need here is a full working example   from datetime import datetime import matplotlib pyplot as plt from matplotlib dates import DateFormatter  myDates    datetime 2012 1 i 3  for i in range 10   myValues    5 6 4 3 7 8 1 2 5 4  fig  ax   plt subplots   ax plot myDates myValues   myFmt   DateFormatter   d   ax xaxis set major formatter myFmt      Rotate date labels automatically fig autofmt xdate   plt show

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In short   import matplotlib dates as mdates myFmt   mdates DateFormatter   d   ax xaxis set major formatter myFmt    Many examples on the matplotlib website  The one I most commonly use is here

[python] Editing the date formatting of x-axis tick labels in matplotlib

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