diff --git a/python/python/ert_gui/plottery/__init__.py b/python/python/ert_gui/plottery/__init__.py
index ad23243bee5..2203e8dd108 100644
--- a/python/python/ert_gui/plottery/__init__.py
+++ b/python/python/ert_gui/plottery/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 # At least for some combinations of pandas and matplotlib the numpy.datetime64
 # dates coming from pandas are not correctly recognized/converted by matplotlib.
 # Calling this converter.register() method seems to fix the problem.
-from pandas.tseries import converter
-converter.register()
+try:
+    from pandas.plotting import register_matplotlib_converters
+    register_matplotlib_converters()
+except:
+    pass
 
 from .plot_data_gatherer import PlotDataGatherer
 from .plot_style import PlotStyle