René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Number of ticks for dates still gives overlapping labels","articleBody":"Matplotlib 2.0 introduced better default tick locators to have a better (often less) number of ticks (http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/users/dflt_style_changes.html#number-of-ticks) that prevents overlap of ticklabels. Which is a really nice enhancement, only it seems that this enhancement is not working for datetime tick labels:\r\n\r\n```\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import matplotlib\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e matplotlib.__version__\r\n'2.0.0rc2'\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import datetime\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e dates = [datetime.datetime(2016,1,i) for i in range(1,30)]\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e values = list(range(1,30))\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e plt.plot(dates, values)\r\n[\u003cmatplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x7f41327d2e80\u003e]\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e plt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n![figure_1-2](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1020496/21577206/3aab28a0-cf53-11e6-99b3-53d4301b328a.png)\r\n\r\nThis still gives the 'too much' tick labels like before (actually, the same plot but with integer x values gives fewer ticks).\r\n\r\nIs there a technical reason for this? (the `DateLocator` using another mechanism to determine the number of ticks as the default `AutoLocator`)\r\n\r\nMatplotlib 2.0.0rc2 (installed from conda-forge)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jorisvandenbossche","@type":"Person","name":"jorisvandenbossche"},"datePublished":"2016-12-31T11:23:52.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/7712/matplotlib/issues/7712"}