> Have you tried to use the timeseries scikits ? It provides some
> convenient way to plot the kind of data you have, and ticks are
> automatically adjusted depending on the level of zoom.
> You can download the sources by SVN:
> svn co http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scikits/trunk/timeseries timeseries
I have about 20 years of monthly data to plot
using plot_date. The data are datetime dates
and floats. As usual, the ticks are chosen
very nicely for the floats. But far too many dates
are ticked, and their text completely overlaps.
Even if I use autofmt_xdate(), which allows me
to at least read
