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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Enable plotting of timedeltas","articleBody":"This is a general issue to track progress in enabling the plotting of `timedelta` objects. The eventual aim is for code like this to work:\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nfrom datetime import timedelta\r\n\r\nx = [1, 2]\r\ny = [timedelta(seconds=1), timedelta(seconds=2)]\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\r\nax.scatter(x, y)\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\nTODO\r\n------\r\n\r\n- [ ] Method to convert `timedelta` to Matplotlib's internal time/date representation (float number of days) - #9120 \r\n- [x] Method to convert Matplotlib's internal time/date representation back to `timedelta` - #8870\r\n- [ ] Implement a `TimedeltaFormatter` - #8930\r\n- [ ] Implement a `TimedeltaLocator` (possibly along with `timedelta` versions of `SecondLocator`, `MinuteLocator` etc.)\r\n- [ ] Implement an `AutoTimedeltaLocator`\r\n- [ ] Implement a `TimedeltaConverter` to go in the units registry","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dstansby","@type":"Person","name":"dstansby"},"datePublished":"2017-07-12T11:02:01.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":23},"url":"https://github.com/8869/matplotlib/issues/8869"}