{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6437","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6437/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6437/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6437/events","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6437","id":155172423,"number":6437,"title":"Improperly spaced time axis","user":{"login":"jbwhit","id":105829,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/105829?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit","html_url":"https://github.com/jbwhit","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jbwhit/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/labels/needs%20clarification","name":"needs clarification","color":"DDDDDD"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestones/20","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestones/2.0.1%20(next%20bug%20fix%20release)","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestones/20/labels","id":1306895,"number":20,"title":"2.0.1 (next bug fix release)","description":"","creator":{"login":"tacaswell","id":199813,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/199813?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell","html_url":"https://github.com/tacaswell","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"open_issues":87,"closed_issues":18,"state":"open","created_at":"2015-09-15T17:47:44Z","updated_at":"2016-05-17T13:05:26Z","due_on":null,"closed_at":null},"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-05-17T04:00:39Z","updated_at":"2016-05-17T13:18:44Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I've put a short reproducible example in this gist: https://gist.github.com/jbwhit/467e154cef029f8098d560924f14612c\r\n\r\nThe problem can be seen in this screenshot\r\n\r\n<img width=\"917\" alt=\"screenshot 2016-05-16 20 44 57\" src=\"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/105829/15310858/067f8eda-1ba9-11e6-9b89-38f36e4aaab1.png\">\r\n\r\nNotice how, for example, November is wider than December (so it isn't merely the number of days in each month). My conda installed setup's details: \r\n\r\n```\r\nSoftware\tVersion\r\nPython\t2.7.11 64bit [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)]\r\nIPython\t4.2.0\r\nOS\tDarwin 14.5.0 x86_64 i386 64bit\r\nnumpy\t1.11.0\r\nmatplotlib\t1.5.1\r\npandas\t0.17.1\r\nMon May 16 20:54:59 2016 PDT\r\n\r\n\r\n```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/comments/219714569","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6437#issuecomment-219714569","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6437","id":219714569,"user":{"login":"jorisvandenbossche","id":1020496,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1020496?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche","html_url":"https://github.com/jorisvandenbossche","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jorisvandenbossche/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-17T13:18:44Z","updated_at":"2016-05-17T13:18:44Z","body":"More easy to reproduce example:\r\n\r\n```\r\ns = pd.Series(np.random.randn(40), index=pd.date_range(\"2015-07-04\", periods=40, freq='1w'))\r\ns.plot()\r\n```\r\n\r\nBut I suppose this is an issue with the pandas specific formatter (although I don't know how it is with latest matplotlib, tested with 1.5.0), because of using equally spaced sub-ticks"}}