python-datetime

I have a series whose index is datetime that I wish to plot. I want to plot the values of the series on the y axis and the index of the series on the x axis. The Series looks as follows: 2014-01-01 7 2014-02-01 8 2014-03-01 9 2014-04-01 8 ... I generate a graph using plt.plot(series.index, series.values) . But the graph looks like: The problem is that I would like to have only year and month. However, the graph contains hours, minutes and seconds. How can I remove them so that I get my desired formatting? # sample data import numpy as np import pandas as pd N = 30 drange = pd.date_range("2014

I have a python datetime instance that was created using datetime.utcnow() and persisted in database. For display, I would like to convert the datetime instance retrieved from the database to local datetime using the default local timezone (i.e., as if the datetime was created using datetime.now()). How can I convert the UTC datetime to a local datetime using only python standard library (e.g., no pytz dependency)? It seems one solution would be to use datetime.astimezone( tz ), but how would you get the default local timezone? jfs In Python 3.3+: from datetime import datetime, timezone def