danfo.toDateTime

Converts an array of Date strings to Date object.

danfo.toDateTime(data)

Parameters
Type
Description
Default

data

Array, Series

data: Array

Series with Date strings to convert to Date time.

Examples

In the following example, we convert a Series of Date strings to DateTime objects, so we can call various Date methods on them.

const dfd = require('danfojs-node')

let data = new dateRange({ "start": '1/1/2018', period: 12, freq: 'M' })
let sf = new Series(data)
sf.print()

let dt = toDateTime(data)
dt.dayOfMonth().print()
dt.dayOfWeekName().print()
dt.hours().print()
╔═══╤════════════════════════╗
║ 0 │ 1/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 1 │ 2/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 2 │ 3/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 3 │ 4/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 4 │ 5/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 5 │ 6/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 6 │ 7/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 7 │ 8/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 8 │ 9/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM  ║
╟───┼────────────────────────╢
║ 9 │ 10/1/2018, 12:00:00 AM ║
╚═══╧════════════════════════╝

╔═══╤═══╗
║ 0 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 1 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 2 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 3 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 4 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 5 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 6 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 7 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 8 │ 1 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 9 │ 1 ║
╚═══╧═══╝

╔═══╤═══════════╗
║ 0 │ Monday    ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 1 │ Thursday  ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 2 │ Thursday  ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 3 │ Sunday    ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 4 │ Tuesday   ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 5 │ Friday    ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 6 │ Sunday    ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 7 │ Wednesday ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 8 │ Saturday  ║
╟───┼───────────╢
║ 9 │ Monday    ║
╚═══╧═══════════╝

╔═══╤═══╗
║ 0 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 1 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 2 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 3 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 4 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 5 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 6 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 7 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 8 │ 0 ║
╟───┼───╢
║ 9 │ 0 ║
╚═══╧═══╝

Date time properties of Series or datetime-like columns in DataFrame can be accessed via accessors in the dt name-space. See Accessors

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