In a message of 30 Jun 2015 00:56:26 +0000, Peter Pearson writes: >The following code produces a plot with a line running from (9:30, 0) to >(10:30, 1), not from (8:30, 0) to (9:30, 1) as I desire. > >If I use timezone None instead of pacific, the plot is as desired, but >of course that doesn't solve the general problem of which this is a >much-reduced example. > >If I use timezone US/Central, I get the same (bad) plot. > >import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >import datetime >import pytz >pacific = pytz.timezone("US/Pacific") >fig = plt.figure() >plt.plot([datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 7, 8, 30, tzinfo=pacific), > datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 7, 9, 30, tzinfo=pacific)], > [0,1], marker="o", color="green") >fig.autofmt_xdate() >plt.show() > >Does anybody know why this shift is occurring? Is Matplotlib >confused about what timezone to use in labeling the axis? How >would I tell it what timezone to use (preferably explicitly in >the code, not in matplotlibrc)? > >Thanks. > >-- >To email me, substitute nowhere->runbox, invalid->com. >-- >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
I know that your problem is that all your times are in UTC, even though you do not want this. I had this too. I forget what I did. I do not know if this solution from stackoverflow.com will work for you -- it is definitely different from what I did, but that does not in any way make it wrong. Try and see? and report back? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4485607/matplotlib-plot-date-keeping-times-in-utc-even-with-custom-timezone -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list