python linear regression predict by date

Question

I want to predict a value at a date in the future with simple linear regression, but I can\'t due to the date format.

This is the dataframe I have:

Answer 1

When using

dt.datetime.toordinal

be careful that it only converts dates values and does not take into account minutes, seconds etc.. For a complete answer on generating ordinals from full datetime objects you can use something like:

df['Datetime column'].apply(lambda x: time.mktime(x.timetuple()))