pandas.DatetimeIndex

class pandas.DatetimeIndex

Immutable ndarray of datetime64 data, represented internally as int64, and which can be boxed to Timestamp objects that are subclasses of datetime and carry metadata such as frequency information.

Parameters:

data : array-like (1-dimensional), optional

Optional datetime-like data to construct index with

copy : bool

Make a copy of input ndarray

freq : string or pandas offset object, optional

One of pandas date offset strings or corresponding objects

start : starting value, datetime-like, optional

If data is None, start is used as the start point in generating regular timestamp data.

periods : int, optional, > 0

Number of periods to generate, if generating index. Takes precedence over end argument

end : end time, datetime-like, optional

If periods is none, generated index will extend to first conforming time on or just past end argument

closed : string or None, default None

Make the interval closed with respect to the given frequency to the ‘left’, ‘right’, or both sides (None)

tz : pytz.timezone or dateutil.tz.tzfile

ambiguous : ‘infer’, bool-ndarray, ‘NaT’, default ‘raise’

• ‘infer’ will attempt to infer fall dst-transition hours based on order
• bool-ndarray where True signifies a DST time, False signifies a non-DST time (note that this flag is only applicable for ambiguous times)
• ‘NaT’ will return NaT where there are ambiguous times
• ‘raise’ will raise an AmbiguousTimeError if there are ambiguous times

name : object

Name to be stored in the index

dayfirst : bool, default False

If True, parse dates in data with the day first order

yearfirst : bool, default False

If True parse dates in data with the year first order

See also

Index

The base pandas Index type

TimedeltaIndex

Index of timedelta64 data

PeriodIndex

Index of Period data

pandas.to_datetime

Convert argument to datetime

Notes

To learn more about the frequency strings, please see this link.

Attributes

year	The year of the datetime
month	The month as January=1, December=12
day	The days of the datetime
hour	The hours of the datetime
minute	The minutes of the datetime
second	The seconds of the datetime
microsecond	The microseconds of the datetime
nanosecond	The nanoseconds of the datetime
date	Returns numpy array of python datetime.date objects (namely, the date part of Timestamps without timezone information).
time	Returns numpy array of datetime.time.
dayofyear	The ordinal day of the year
weekofyear	The week ordinal of the year
week	The week ordinal of the year
dayofweek	The day of the week with Monday=0, Sunday=6
weekday	The day of the week with Monday=0, Sunday=6
quarter	The quarter of the date
freq	Return the frequency object if it is set, otherwise None
freqstr	Return the frequency object as a string if it is set, otherwise None
is_month_start	Logical indicating if first day of month (defined by frequency)
is_month_end	Indicator for whether the date is the last day of the month.
is_quarter_start	Indicator for whether the date is the first day of a quarter.
is_quarter_end	Indicator for whether the date is the last day of a quarter.
is_year_start	Indicate whether the date is the first day of a year.
is_year_end	Indicate whether the date is the last day of the year.
is_leap_year	Boolean indicator if the date belongs to a leap year.
inferred_freq	Tries to return a string representing a frequency guess, generated by infer_freq.

tz

Methods

normalize()	Convert times to midnight.
strftime(date_format)	Convert to Index using specified date_format.
snap([freq])	Snap time stamps to nearest occurring frequency
tz_convert(tz)	Convert tz-aware DatetimeIndex from one time zone to another.
tz_localize(tz[, ambiguous, errors])	Localize tz-naive DatetimeIndex to tz-aware DatetimeIndex.
round(freq, *args, **kwargs)	round the data to the specified freq.
floor(freq)	floor the data to the specified freq.
ceil(freq)	ceil the data to the specified freq.
to_period([freq])	Cast to PeriodIndex at a particular frequency.
to_perioddelta(freq)	Calculate TimedeltaIndex of difference between index values and index converted to periodIndex at specified freq.
to_pydatetime()	Return DatetimeIndex as object ndarray of datetime.datetime objects
to_series([keep_tz, index, name])	Create a Series with both index and values equal to the index keys useful with map for returning an indexer based on an index
to_frame([index])	Create a DataFrame with a column containing the Index.
month_name([locale])	Return the month names of the DateTimeIndex with specified locale.
day_name([locale])	Return the day names of the DateTimeIndex with specified locale.