pandas.Series.dt.strftime#

Series.dt.strftime(*args, **kwargs)[source]#

Convert to Index using specified date_format.

Return an Index of formatted strings specified by date_format, which supports the same string format as the python standard library. Details of the string format can be found in python string format doc.

Formats supported by the C strftime API but not by the python string format doc (such as “%R”, “%r”) are not officially supported and should be preferably replaced with their supported equivalents (such as “%H:%M”, “%I:%M:%S %p”).

Note that PeriodIndex support additional directives, detailed in Period.strftime.

Parameters:

date_formatstr: Date format string (e.g. “%Y-%m-%d”).

Returns:

ndarray[object]: NumPy ndarray of formatted strings.

See also

to_datetime: Convert the given argument to datetime.
DatetimeIndex.normalize: Return DatetimeIndex with times to midnight.
DatetimeIndex.round: Round the DatetimeIndex to the specified freq.
DatetimeIndex.floor: Floor the DatetimeIndex to the specified freq.
Timestamp.strftime: Format a single Timestamp.
Period.strftime: Format a single Period.

Examples

>>> rng = pd.date_range(pd.Timestamp("2018-03-10 09:00"), periods=3, freq="s")
>>> rng.strftime("%B %d, %Y, %r")
Index(['March 10, 2018, 09:00:00 AM', 'March 10, 2018, 09:00:01 AM',
       'March 10, 2018, 09:00:02 AM'],
      dtype='object')