So I have this column in a dataframe that has 4896 rows of datatimes in this shape:
2018-10-24
2014-04-10
2008-05-21
...
And I would like to transform or convert this data to years only (like 2018.15) -> convert the day and month to year time and have only the years!
How can I do so?? Thank you so much!!
In: 2018-10-24
Out: 2018.56 (for example)
Using just base Python (as you didn't specify that you have a pandas dataframe - pandas has specific functions to perform calculations with datetime objects):
from datetime import datetime
#takes as arguments the date as a string and an optional format string
def floatyear(str, fmtstr="%Y-%m-%d"):
t = datetime.strptime(str, fmtstr)
t_first = datetime(t.year, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
t_last = datetime(t.year, 12, 31, 0, 0, 0)
return t.year + ((t-t_first).days/(t_last-t_first).days)
print(floatyear("2018-10-24", "%Y-%m-%d"))
Sample output:
2018.8131868131868