datetime - Plotting with date times and matplotlib -

so, i'm using function this website (try) make stick plots of netcdf4 data. there excerpt of code below. got data here.

the stick_plot(time,u,v) function appears in website linked why did not show copy of function below.

when run code following error. idea on how around this?

attributeerror: 'numpy.float64' object has no attribute 'toordinal'

the description of time netcdf4 file:

<type 'netcdf4._netcdf4.variable'> float64 time(time)     long_name: time     standard_name: time     units: days since 1900-01-01 00:00:00z     axis: t     ancillary_variables: time_quality_flag     data_min: 2447443.375     data_max: 2448005.16667 unlimited dimensions:  current shape = (13484,) filling off 

here excerpt of code:

imports:

import matplotlib.pyplot plot import numpy np netcdf4 import dataset import os matplotlib.dates import date2num datetime import datetime 

trying generate plots:

path = '/users/kyle/documents/summer_research/east_coast_currents/' currents = [x x in os.listdir('%s' %(path)) if '.ds' not in x]  datum in currents:     working_data = dataset('%s' %(path+datum), 'r', format = 'netcdf4')     u = working_data.variables['u'][:][:100]     v = working_data.variables['v'][:][:100]     time = working_data.variables['time'][:][:100]     q = stick_plot(time,u,v)     ref = 1     qk = plot.quiverkey(q, 0.1, 0.85, ref,                       "%s n m$^{-2}$" % ref,                       labelpos='n', coordinates='axes')      _ = plot.xticks(rotation=70)     

joe kington answered question. netcdf4 file read times in datetime object. had replace date2num(time) time fixed everything.