When I try to convert from number format to Date I'm not getting the same result what I get in Excel.
I need to convert a Number to date format and get the same result what I get in Excel.
For Example in Excel for the below Number I get the following:
Input - 42970.73819
Output- 8/23/2017 17:43
I tried using the date conversion in Pandas but not getting the same result as of Excel.
Thank you Madan
I think you need convert serial date:
df = pd.DataFrame({'date':[42970.73819,42970.73819]})
print (df)
date
0 42970.73819
1 42970.73819
df = pd.to_datetime((df['date'] - 25569) * 86400.0, unit='s')
print (df)
0 2017-08-23 17:42:59.616
1 2017-08-23 17:42:59.616
Name: date, dtype: datetime64[ns]
xlrd.xldate_as_datetime but there's two offsets for years 0 for Windows (1900) and 1 for Mac (1904)... so df.date.apply(xlrd.xldate_as_datetime, args=(0,)) is also an option there... (assuming you're going to be working with Excel documents at one point with pandas one's likely to have xlrd, xlwt and openpyxl installed)