pandas.tseries.tools.to_datetime¶
- pandas.tseries.tools.to_datetime(arg, errors='ignore', dayfirst=False, utc=None, box=True, format=None, coerce=False, unit='ns')¶
Convert argument to datetime
Parameters: arg : string, datetime, array of strings (with possible NAs)
errors : {‘ignore’, ‘raise’}, default ‘ignore’
Errors are ignored by default (values left untouched)
dayfirst : boolean, default False
If True parses dates with the day first, eg 20/01/2005 Warning: dayfirst=True is not strict, but will prefer to parse with day first (this is a known bug).
utc : boolean, default None
Return UTC DatetimeIndex if True (converting any tz-aware datetime.datetime objects as well)
box : boolean, default True
If True returns a DatetimeIndex, if False returns ndarray of values
format : string, default None
strftime to parse time, eg “%d/%m/%Y”
coerce : force errors to NaT (False by default)
unit : unit of the arg (D,s,ms,us,ns) denote the unit in epoch
(e.g. a unix timestamp), which is an integer/float number
Returns: ret : datetime if parsing succeeded