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Pandas time series plotting not working

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Hello,

I created an Anaconda environment on MacOS using:
`conda install jupyter pandas fbprophet seaborn`

I have a Pandas DataFrame with a DatetimeIndex. I am plotting the time series using the pandas functionality:

```
df["ds"] = pd.to_datetime(df["ds"])
df = df.set_index("ds")
df[["y"]].plot()
```

The code works if I don't import fbprophet and fails after I import it with the error:
`TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'Period'`

Checking the code I noticed that the [matplotlib converters are being deregistered](https://github.com/facebook/prophet/blob/ebb304680d126e5d3a83d4ef9eb1f50cb5965273/python/fbprophet/plot.py#L29).

The code works if I add `pd.plotting.register_matplotlib_converters()` before plotting.

Is there a reason for using deregister_matplotlib_converters()?

Thanks

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