pandas.Series.dt.unit

Series.dt.unit

The precision unit of the datetime data.

Returns the precision unit for the dtype. It means the smallest time frame that can be stored within this dtype.

Returns:

str

Unit string representation (e.g. “ns”).

See also

TimelikeOps.as_unit

Converts to a specific unit.

Examples

>>> idx = pd.DatetimeIndex(["2020-01-02 01:02:03.004005006"])
>>> idx.unit
'ns'
>>> idx.as_unit("s").unit
's'