pandas.TimedeltaIndex.unit

property TimedeltaIndex.unit

The precision unit of the datetime data.

Returns the precision unit for the dtype of the index. This is the smallest time frame that can be stored within this dtype.

Returns:

str

Unit string representation (e.g. "ns").

See also

DatetimeIndex.as_unit

Convert to the given unit.

TimedeltaIndex.as_unit

Convert to the given unit.

Examples

For a DatetimeIndex:

>>> idx = pd.DatetimeIndex(["2020-01-02 01:02:03.004005006"])
>>> idx.unit
'ns'

>>> idx_s = pd.DatetimeIndex(["2020-01-02 01:02:03"], dtype="datetime64[s]")
>>> idx_s.unit
's'

For a TimedeltaIndex:

>>> tdidx = pd.TimedeltaIndex(["1 day 3 min 2 us 42 ns"])
>>> tdidx.unit
'ns'

>>> tdidx_s = pd.TimedeltaIndex(["1 day 3 min"], dtype="timedelta64[s]")
>>> tdidx_s.unit
's'