Matplotlib DateFormatter for axis label not working

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pandas just doesn’t work well with custom date-time formats.

You need to just use raw matplotlib in cases like this.

import numpy
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import pandas

N = 20
numpy.random.seed(N)

dates = pandas.date_range('1/1/2014', periods=N, freq='m')
df = pandas.DataFrame(
    data=numpy.random.randn(N), 
    index=dates,
    columns=['A']
)

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 6))
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m'))
ax.bar(df.index, df['A'], width=25, align='center')

And that gives me:

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