Merge pull request #19587 from jklymak/doc-fix-plot_date-doc

timhoffm · web-flow · commit 6ddad425c1a6 · 2021-02-26T17:17:39.000+01:00
DOC: fix plot_date doc
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -1613,11 +1613,12 @@ def plot(self, *args, scalex=True, scaley=True, data=None, **kwargs):
     def plot_date(self, x, y, fmt='o', tz=None, xdate=True, ydate=False,
                   **kwargs):
         """
-        Plot data that contains dates.
+        Plot co-ercing the axis to treat floats as dates.
 
         Similar to `.plot`, this plots *y* vs. *x* as lines or markers.
         However, the axis labels are formatted as dates depending on *xdate*
-        and *ydate*.
+        and *ydate*.  Note that `.plot` will work with `datetime` and
+        `numpy.datetime64` objects without resorting to this method.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
