pandas convert from datetime to integer timestamp

python pandas timestamp datetime-conversion
Francesco Boi picture Francesco Boi · Jan 22, 2019 · Viewed 52.7k times · Source

Considering a pandas dataframe in python having a column named time of type integer, I can convert it to a datetime format with the following instruction.

df['time'] = pandas.to_datetime(df['time'], unit='s')

so now the column has entries like: 2019-01-15 13:25:43.

What is the command to revert the string to an integer timestamp value (representing the number of seconds elapsed from 1970-01-01 00:00:00)?

I checked pandas.Timestamp but could not find a conversion utility and I was not able to use pandas.to_timedelta for this.

Is there any utility for this conversion?

Answer

Always Sunny picture Always Sunny · Jan 22, 2019

You can typecast to int using astype(int) and divide it by 10**9 to get the number of seconds to the unix epoch start.

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'time': [pd.to_datetime('2019-01-15 13:25:43')]})
df_unix_sec = pd.to_datetime(df['time']).astype(int)/ 10**9
print(df_unix_sec)

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