Trouble converting axes to UTC

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Python 3.6.2, macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra

conda list says obspy 0.0.0+archive <pip> installed probably a year ago

I would like to have the x-axis be in UTC time format, however, I cannot figure out how to convert this from seconds to UTC.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from obspy import read

st = read("sac_file.SAC")

time = st[0].times()

plt.figure(figsize = (22, 10))
plt.subplot(111)
plt.plot(time, st[0], 'k')
plt.ylabel('Counts')
plt.xlabel('Time (seconds)')
plt.show()

Instead, if I use the .plot() method instead of the above code, this formats the x-axis in UTC, but I cannot figure out how to add labels to the axes.

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Easiest way is to convert to datetime format which matplotlib can interpret easily.

time = st[0].times + st[0].stats.starttime
time = [t.datetime for t in times]

David Craig