Converting Pandas DatetimeIndex to a numeric format

Question

I want to convert the DatetimeIndex in my DataFrame to float format,which can be analysed in my model.Could someone tell me how to do it? Do I need to use date2num()functio

Answer 1

If you only want specific parts of your DateTimeIndex, try this:

ADDITIONAL = 1
ddf_c['ts_part_numeric'] = ((ddf_c.index.dt.year * (10000 * ADDITIONAL)) + (ddf_c.index.dt.month * (100 * ADDITIONAL)) + ((ddf_c.index.dt.day) * ADDITIONAL))

Output is

20190523
20190524

Could adjust it to your time resolution needed.