plotting date/value pairs

Hi everyone:

I am interested in plotting data in the form:

2004/01/29 15:29:17.161621101 5
2004/01/29 15:29:18.161621061 6
2004/01/29 15:29:19.161621021 7
2004/01/29 15:29:20.161620981 8
2004/01/29 15:29:21.161620941 9
2004/01/29 15:29:22.161620901 0
2004/01/29 15:29:23.161620861 1
...

In some cases I will have data every second, other times every minute or hour.. and so on..

Ideally I would like the x-axis of my plots to show the time/dates as the units. Is this currently possible with matplotlib? So in other words could I call on:

plot(date_in_some_format, data)

I suppose an alternative would be to convert the times to say seconds, create a plot and manually add the actual date/time label (text). This would be tedious but doable.

Thanks.

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