Rotate axis text in python matplotlib

Question

I can\'t figure out how to rotate the text on the X Axis. Its a time stamp, so as the number of samples increase, they get closer and closer until they overlap. I\'d like

Answer 1

The simplest solution is to use:

plt.xticks(rotation=XX)

but also

# Tweak spacing to prevent clipping of tick-labels
plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=X.XX)

e.g for dates I used rotation=45 and bottom=0.20 but you can do some test for your data