How to plot time series in python
Convert your x-axis data from text to datetime.datetime, use datetime.strptime:
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime("2012-may-31 19:00", "%Y-%b-%d %H:%M")
datetime.datetime(2012, 5, 31, 19, 0)
This is an example of how to plot data once you have an array of datetimes:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import datetime
import numpy as np
x = np.array([datetime.datetime(2013, 9, 28, i, 0) for i in range(24)])
y = np.random.randint(100, size=x.shape)
plt.plot(x,y)
plt.show()
