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Placing date ticks using recurrence rules
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The `iCalender RFC`_ specifies *recurrence rules* (rrules), that define
date sequences. You can use rrules in Matplotlib to place date ticks.
This example sets custom date ticks on every 5th easter.
See https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rrule.html for help with rrules.
.. _iCalender RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
"""
import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.dates import (YEARLY, DateFormatter, RRuleLocator, drange,
rrulewrapper)
# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)
# tick every 5th easter
rule = rrulewrapper(YEARLY, byeaster=1, interval=5)
loc = RRuleLocator(rule)
formatter = DateFormatter('%m/%d/%y')
date1 = datetime.date(1952, 1, 1)
date2 = datetime.date(2004, 4, 12)
delta = datetime.timedelta(days=100)
dates = drange(date1, date2, delta)
s = np.random.rand(len(dates)) # make up some random y values
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plt.plot(dates, s, 'o')
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(loc)
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(formatter)
ax.xaxis.set_tick_params(rotation=30, labelsize=10)
plt.show()
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