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What is the fastest way to convert from a unixtime to a numpy.datetime64?

I suppose that the key here is to have the less number of intermediate conversions but I'm not able to find a simple way in the new Numpy 2.0 dev

Solution

  • Actually, numpy.datetime64 objects are basically unix times internally (with 6 extra significant digits to account for millisecond precision). You just need to multiply by 1e6.

    As an example:

    import numpy as np

# Generate a few unix time stamps near today...
x = np.arange(1326706251, 1326706260)

# Convert to datetimes...
x *= 1e6
x = x.view(np.datetime64)

print x

    This yields:

    [2012-01-16 09:30:51 2012-01-16 09:30:52 2012-01-16 09:30:53
 2012-01-16 09:30:54 2012-01-16 09:30:55 2012-01-16 09:30:56
 2012-01-16 09:30:57 2012-01-16 09:30:58 2012-01-16 09:30:59]