pandas.DatetimeIndex

class pandas.DatetimeIndex(data=None, freq=None, tz=None, normalize=False, closed=None, ambiguous='raise', dayfirst=False, yearfirst=False, dtype=None, copy=False, name=None)[source]

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
dataarray-like (1-dimensional), optional

Optional datetime-like data to construct index with.

copybool

Make a copy of input ndarray.

freqstr or pandas offset object, optional

One of pandas date offset strings or corresponding objects. The string ‘infer’ can be passed in order to set the frequency of the index as the inferred frequency upon creation.

tzpytz.timezone or dateutil.tz.tzfile
ambiguous‘infer’, bool-ndarray, ‘NaT’, default ‘raise’

When clocks moved backward due to DST, ambiguous times may arise. For example in Central European Time (UTC+01), when going from 03:00 DST to 02:00 non-DST, 02:30:00 local time occurs both at 00:30:00 UTC and at 01:30:00 UTC. In such a situation, the ambiguous parameter dictates how ambiguous times should be handled.

  • ‘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.

nameobject

Name to be stored in the index.

dayfirstbool, default False

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

yearfirstbool, 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.

to_datetime

Convert argument to datetime.

date_range

Create a fixed-frequency DatetimeIndex.

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 month as January=1, December=12.

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.

timetz

Returns numpy array of datetime.time also containing timezone information.

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.

tz

Return timezone, if any.

freq

Return the frequency object if it is set, otherwise None.

freqstr

Return the frequency object as a string if its set, otherwise None

is_month_start

Indicates whether the date is the first day of the month.

is_month_end

Indicates 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

Tryies to return a string representing a frequency guess, generated by infer_freq.

Methods

normalize(self, *args, **kwargs)

Convert times to midnight.

strftime(self, *args, **kwargs)

Convert to Index using specified date_format.

snap(self[, freq])

Snap time stamps to nearest occurring frequency.

tz_convert(self, *args, **kwargs)

Convert tz-aware Datetime Array/Index from one time zone to another.

tz_localize(self, *args, **kwargs)

Localize tz-naive Datetime Array/Index to tz-aware Datetime Array/Index.

round(self, *args, **kwargs)

Perform round operation on the data to the specified freq.

floor(self, *args, **kwargs)

Perform floor operation on the data to the specified freq.

ceil(self, *args, **kwargs)

Perform ceil operation on the data to the specified freq.

to_period(self, *args, **kwargs)

Cast to PeriodArray/Index at a particular frequency.

to_perioddelta(self, *args, **kwargs)

Calculate TimedeltaArray of difference between index values and index converted to PeriodArray at specified freq.

to_pydatetime(self, *args, **kwargs)

Return Datetime Array/Index as object ndarray of datetime.datetime objects.

to_series(self[, 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(self[, index, name])

Create a DataFrame with a column containing the Index.

month_name(self, *args, **kwargs)

Return the month names of the DateTimeIndex with specified locale.

day_name(self, *args, **kwargs)

Return the day names of the DateTimeIndex with specified locale.

mean(self, *args, **kwargs)

Return the mean value of the Array.