Find the closest date to a given date
I have an array of datetime objects, and I would like to find which element in the array is the closest to a given date (e.g datetime.datetime(2014,12,16))
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Find the end of the month of a Pandas DataFrame Series
I have a series within a DataFrame that I read in initially as an object, and then need to convert it to a date in the form of yyyy-mm-dd where dd is the end of the month.
Python datetime object show wrong timezone offset
I am try creating a datetime object in python using datetime and pytz, the offset shown is wrong.
Getting today’s date in YYYY-MM-DD in Python?
Is there a nicer way than the following to return today’s date in the YYYY-MM-DD format?
Check if string has date, any format
How do I check if a string can be parsed to a date?
Pandas: Subtracting two date columns and the result being an integer
I have two columns in a Pandas data frame that are dates.
How to convert a python datetime.datetime to excel serial date number
I need to convert dates into Excel serial numbers for a data munging script I am writing. By playing with dates in my OpenOffice Calc workbook, I was able to deduce that ‘1-Jan 1899 00:00:00’ maps to the number zero.
How do I create a datetime in Python from milliseconds?
How do I create a datetime in Python from milliseconds? I can create a similar Date object in Java by java.util.Date(milliseconds).
Generating random dates within a given range in pandas
This is a self-answered post. A common problem is to randomly generate dates between a given start and end date.
Create a day-of-week column in a Pandas dataframe using Python
Create a day-of-week column in a Pandas dataframe using Python