pyarrow.timestamp

pyarrow.timestamp(unit, tz=None)

Create instance of timestamp type with resolution and optional time zone.

Parameters:

unitstr

one of ‘s’ [second], ‘ms’ [millisecond], ‘us’ [microsecond], or ‘ns’ [nanosecond]

tzstr, default None

Time zone name. None indicates time zone naive

Returns:

timestamp_typeTimestampType

Examples

Create an instance of timestamp type:

>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> pa.timestamp('us')
TimestampType(timestamp[us])
>>> pa.timestamp('s', tz='America/New_York')
TimestampType(timestamp[s, tz=America/New_York])
>>> pa.timestamp('s', tz='+07:30')
TimestampType(timestamp[s, tz=+07:30])

Use timestamp type when creating a scalar object:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> pa.scalar(datetime(2012, 1, 1), type=pa.timestamp('s', tz='UTC'))
<pyarrow.TimestampScalar: '2012-01-01T00:00:00+0000'>
>>> pa.scalar(datetime(2012, 1, 1), type=pa.timestamp('us'))
<pyarrow.TimestampScalar: '2012-01-01T00:00:00.000000'>