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

I think you can have the desired functionality by setting the timezone in rcParams:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.rcParams['timezone'] = 'US/Eastern'

The formatter is timezone aware and will convert the timestamp to your rcParams timezone (which is probably at UTC), while if you don't format it, it will just take the timestamp and ignore the timezone. If I understand correctly.

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