time_range.py

"""
`datetime` is included in the standard library.

time format:
    %d: Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number. 01, 02, ..., 31
    %m: Month as a zero-padded decimal number. 01, 02, ..., 12
    %Y: Year with century as a decimal number.
    %H: Hour (24-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number. 00, 01, ..., 23
    %M: Minute as a zero-padded decimal number. 00, 01, ..., 59
"""
import datetime

# date + minute
start = "24-10-2019 00:00"
end = "11-11-2019 23:59"
european_format = "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M"
step_size = datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)

# date + hour
# start = "24-10-2019 00"
# end = "11-11-2019 23"
# european_format = "%d-%m-%Y %H"
# step_size = datetime.timedelta(hours=1)


t = datetime.datetime.strptime(start, european_format)
while t <= datetime.datetime.strptime(end, european_format):
    print(t.strftime(european_format))
    t += step_size

Run in command line:

python time_range.py > x_axis.txt