Matplotlib ignoring timezone

Question

The following plot

import matplotlib
f= plt.figure(figsize=(12,4))
ax = f.add_subplot(111)
df.set_index(\'timestamp\')[\'values\'].plot(ax=ax)
ax.xaxis.set_majo         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to change rcParams (which seems to be an easy fix), then you can pass the timezone to mdates.DateFormatter.

from dateutil import tz
mdates.DateFormatter('%H:%M', tz=tz.gettz('Europe/Berlin'))

The problem is that mdates.DateFormatter completely ignores everything you set in like plot_date or xaxis_date or whatever you use.