Exponent on x-axis with pandas date_range

[PRemmen]

I try to create plots with hourly data for one year and and displaying the month on the x-axis. This is a minimal example of my python code:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import tikzplotlib

df_plot = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8760, 1), columns=["simulation"])
df_plot.index = pd.date_range(
    start="2017-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", end="2017-12-31 23:00:00+00:00", freq="H"
)
fig = plt.figure("Rohdaten FZJ")
ax12 = fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.1)
ax12.plot(df_plot.index, df_plot["simulation"], label="Simulation")
ax12.xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.MonthLocator(interval=2))
ax12.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter("%d-%m-%Y"))
plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate()
plt.tight_layout()
tikzplotlib.save("Simulation.tikz")
plt.savefig("Simulation.png", transparent=True)

This is the TeX Code I'm getting (I deleted all data except first and last entries for readability)

% This file was created by tikzplotlib v0.8.2.
\begin{tikzpicture}

\definecolor{color0}{rgb}{0.12156862745098,0.466666666666667,0.705882352941177}

\begin{axis}[
tick align=outside,
tick pos=left,
x grid style={white!69.01960784313725!black},
xmin=736311.752083333, xmax=736713.20625,
xtick style={color=black},
xtick={736330,736389,736450,736511,736573,736634,736695},
xticklabel style = {rotate=30.0},
xticklabels={01-01-2017,01-03-2017,01-05-2017,01-07-2017,01-09-2017,01-11-2017,01-01-2018},
y grid style={white!69.01960784313725!black},
ymin=-3.97578151025687, ymax=3.78882092720731,
ytick style={color=black}
]
\addplot [semithick, color0]
table {%
736330 0.327795239881513
736330.041666667 -0.0747599113657556
...
736694.875 0.111241323306133
736694.916666667 -0.237033632238238
736694.958333333 0.408593296674818
};
\end{axis}

\end{tikzpicture}

I render the tikz image with:

\begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \input{figures/.../Simulation.tikz}
 \caption{An example of a tikz diagram}
 \label{fig:example1}
\end{figure}

in my main document I included:

\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots} 
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{dateplot}
\usetikzlibrary{plotmarks, shapes, arrows, positioning, shadows, trees}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/tikz/tikz_]

Now, If I am comparing the .png result and the rendered .pdf (see screenshots) the rendered pdf has an exponent (10⁵) in the xaxis label.

png: pdf:

I do not want to have this exponent in my figure. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help! :+1:

[PRemmen]

Update:

adding scaled x ticks=false, leads to the desired results. I'll close the issue.

tikzplotlib.save("Simulation.tikz", extra_axis_parameters=["scaled x ticks=false"])