bigframes.pandas.api.typing.DatetimeMethods.strftime

DatetimeMethods.strftime(date_format: str) → Series

Convert to string Series using specified date_format.

Return a Series of formatted strings specified by date_format. Details of the string format can be found in BigQuery format elements doc: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/format-elements#format_elements_date_time.

Examples:

>>> import bigframes.pandas as bpd

>>> s = bpd.to_datetime(
...     ['2014-08-15 08:15:12', '2012-02-29 08:15:12+06:00', '2015-08-15 08:15:12+05:00'],
...     utc=True
... ).astype("timestamp[us, tz=UTC][pyarrow]")

>>> s.dt.strftime("%B %d, %Y, %r")
0      August 15, 2014, 08:15:12 AM
1    February 29, 2012, 02:15:12 AM
2      August 15, 2015, 03:15:12 AM
dtype: string

Parameters:

date_format (str) – Date format string (e.g. “%Y-%m-%d”).

Returns:

Series of formatted strings.

Return type:

bigframes.pandas.Series