From 39720d14020b1a962e00463cc4a74f919f872a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 00:56:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #31759: DOC: Move "Date tick labels" example from
 "Texts" to "Ticks"

---
 .../examples/{text_labels_and_annotations => ticks}/date.py     | 2 ++
 galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py                          | 2 +-
 lib/matplotlib/dates.py                                         | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 rename galleries/examples/{text_labels_and_annotations => ticks}/date.py (97%)

diff --git a/galleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/date.py b/galleries/examples/ticks/date.py
similarity index 97%
rename from galleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/date.py
rename to galleries/examples/ticks/date.py
index 880e62e36714..e69d77129109 100644
--- a/galleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/date.py
+++ b/galleries/examples/ticks/date.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 rotate the tick labels. The last ``Axes`` formats the dates manually, using
 `~.dates.DateFormatter` to format the dates using the format strings documented
 at `datetime.date.strftime`.
+
+.. redirect-from:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/date
 """
 
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
diff --git a/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py b/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py
index f24d90e8495c..e43f580515d6 100644
--- a/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py
+++ b/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ def my_plotter(ax, data1, data2, param_dict):
 
 # %%
 # For more information see the date examples
-# (e.g. :doc:`/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/date`)
+# (e.g. :doc:`/gallery/ticks/date`)
 #
 # For strings, we get categorical plotting (see:
 # :doc:`/gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/categorical_variables`).
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/dates.py b/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
index 225ca8e6ce76..7f9d90574277 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 .. seealso::
 
-    - :doc:`/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/date`
+    - :doc:`/gallery/ticks/date`
     - :doc:`/gallery/ticks/date_concise_formatter`
     - :doc:`/gallery/ticks/date_demo_convert`