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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Default date format for axis formatting","articleBody":"Some months ago I put a question on stackoverflow.\nhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/30026790/editing-default-date-format\n\nWhen you are overhauling defaults for 2.0 - is there any considerations for changed date defaults or rc-params using locals or ISO style?\n\nI read about (not really) related topics here:\nhttps://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4808\nhttps://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/4809\n\nAs stated at stackoverflow editing the files didn't work as aspected.\nIf it is not in scope of your work some help at stackoverflow would be nice.\n\nText at stackoverflow:\nlocale is \"none\"; resulting in \"american style\" dates (Apr 25 2015) instead of iso style (YYYY-MM-DD)\nOn smaller scales (days or lower), I need to get date information printed to some where (thought of secound and secound to last ticks): This one should be easy when the above is working...\nSolution 1: Adjusting the dates in every single plot using: xaxis.set_major_formatter(matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter(format_date))\nor\n    myFmt = matplotlib.dates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')\n    xaxis.set_major_formatter(myFmt)\n--\u003e I need to add this lines to every plot (static/editor and interactively saved ones)\nSolution 2: editing the files of matplotlib (dates.py ticker.py); I found the AutoDateFormatter but changed defaults do not apply. My desire is something like this (from some years ago), but that trunk version looks like my locale one: Matplotlib autodatelocator custom date formatting?\n--\u003e Couldn't examine where and which \"fmt\" is used\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Intheelement","@type":"Person","name":"Intheelement"},"datePublished":"2015-09-16T10:31:02.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/5086/matplotlib/issues/5086"}