pandas.Timedelta#

class pandas.Timedelta(value=<object object>, unit=None, **kwargs)#

Represents a duration, the difference between two dates or times.

Timedelta is the pandas equivalent of python’s datetime.timedelta and is interchangeable with it in most cases.

Parameters:
valueTimedelta, timedelta, np.timedelta64, str, or int

Input value.

unitstr, default ‘ns’

Denote the unit of the input, if input is an integer.

Possible values:

  • ‘W’, or ‘D’

  • ‘days’, or ‘day’

  • ‘hours’, ‘hour’, ‘hr’, or ‘h’

  • ‘minutes’, ‘minute’, ‘min’, or ‘m’

  • ‘seconds’, ‘second’, ‘sec’, or ‘s’

  • ‘milliseconds’, ‘millisecond’, ‘millis’, ‘milli’, or ‘ms’

  • ‘microseconds’, ‘microsecond’, ‘micros’, ‘micro’, or ‘us’

  • ‘nanoseconds’, ‘nanosecond’, ‘nanos’, ‘nano’, or ‘ns’.

Deprecated since version 3.0.0: Allowing the values w, d, MIN, MS, US and NS to denote units are deprecated in favour of the values W, D, min, ms, us and ns.

**kwargs

Available kwargs: {days, seconds, microseconds, milliseconds, minutes, hours, weeks}. Values for construction in compat with datetime.timedelta. Numpy ints and floats will be coerced to python ints and floats.

See also

Timestamp

Represents a single timestamp in time.

TimedeltaIndex

Immutable Index of timedelta64 data.

DateOffset

Standard kind of date increment used for a date range.

to_timedelta

Convert argument to timedelta.

datetime.timedelta

Represents a duration in the datetime module.

numpy.timedelta64

Represents a duration compatible with NumPy.

Notes

The constructor may take in either both values of value and unit or kwargs as above. Either one of them must be used during initialization

The .value attribute is always in ns.

If the precision is higher than nanoseconds, the precision of the duration is truncated to nanoseconds.

Examples

Here we initialize Timedelta object with both value and unit

>>> td = pd.Timedelta(1, "d")
>>> td
Timedelta('1 days 00:00:00')

Here we initialize the Timedelta object with kwargs

>>> td2 = pd.Timedelta(days=1)
>>> td2
Timedelta('1 days 00:00:00')

We see that either way we get the same result

Attributes

asm8

Return a numpy timedelta64 array scalar view.

components

Return a components namedtuple-like.

days

Returns the days of the timedelta.

max

microseconds

Return the number of microseconds (n), where 0 <= n < 1 millisecond.

min

nanoseconds

Return the number of nanoseconds (n), where 0 <= n < 1 microsecond.

resolution

resolution_string

Return a string representing the lowest timedelta resolution.

seconds

Return the total hours, minutes, and seconds of the timedelta as seconds.

unit

Return the unit of Timedelta object.

value

Return the value of Timedelta object in nanoseconds.

Methods

as_unit(unit[, round_ok])

Convert the underlying int64 representation to the given unit.

ceil(freq)

Return a new Timedelta ceiled to this resolution.

floor(freq)

Return a new Timedelta floored to this resolution.

isoformat()

Format the Timedelta as ISO 8601 Duration.

round(freq)

Round the Timedelta to the specified resolution.

to_numpy([dtype, copy])

Convert the Timedelta to a NumPy timedelta64.

to_pytimedelta()

Convert a pandas Timedelta object into a python datetime.timedelta object.

to_timedelta64()

Return a numpy.timedelta64 object with 'ns' precision.

total_seconds()

Total seconds in the duration.

view(dtype)

Array view compatibility.