Datetime conversion - How to extract the inferred format?

Question

Here\'s an array of datetime values:

array = np.array([\'2016-05-01T00:00:59.3+10:00\', \'2016-05-01T00:02:59.4+10:00\',
                  \'2016-05-01T00:03         


        

Answer 1

You can use _guess_datetime_format from core.tools to get the format. ie

from pandas.core.tools import datetimes as tools
tools._guess_datetime_format(pd.to_datetime(array).format()[0][:10])

Output :

'%Y-%m-%d'

To know more about this method you can see here. Hope it helps.