Formatting datetime xlabels in matplotlib (pandas df.plot() method)

Question

I can\'t figure out how to change the format of these x-labels. Ideally, I\'d like to call strftime(\'%Y-%m-%d\') on them. I\'ve tried things like set_ma

Answer 1

Simply access the tick labels and change them:

xtl=[item.get_text()[:10] for item in ax.get_xticklabels()]
_=ax.set_xticklabels(xtl)