Matplotlib: xticks every 15 minutes, starting on the hour

Question

I am trying to plot values of temperature against time with the time formatted as HH:MM. I am able to set the xticks to recur every 15 minutes but the first tick is at the f

Answer 1

You could tell the MinuteLocator to only use the minutes 0,15,30,45 using the byminute argument.

xlocator = md.MinuteLocator(byminute=[0,15,30,45], interval = 1)