calculate datetime-difference in years, months, etc. in a new pandas dataframe column

Question

I have a pandas dataframe looking like this:

Name    start        end
A       2000-01-10   1970-04-29

I want to add a new column providing the

Answer 1

Pretty much straightforward with relativedelta:

from dateutil import relativedelta

>>          end      start
>> 0 1970-04-29 2000-01-10

for i in df.index:
    df.at[i, 'diff'] = relativedelta.relativedelta(df.ix[i, 'start'], df.ix[i, 'end'])

>>          end      start                                           diff
>> 0 1970-04-29 2000-01-10  relativedelta(years=+29, months=+8, days=+12)

Answer 2

With a simple function you can reach your goal.

The function calculates the years difference and the months difference with a simple calculation.

import pandas as pd
import datetime

def parse_date(td):
    resYear = float(td.days)/364.0                   # get the number of years including the the numbers after the dot
    resMonth = int((resYear - int(resYear))*364/30)  # get the number of months, by multiply the number after the dot by 364 and divide by 30.
    resYear = int(resYear)
    return str(resYear) + "Y" + str(resMonth) + "m"

df = pd.DataFrame([("2000-01-10", "1970-04-29")], columns=["start", "end"])
df["delta"] = [parse_date(datetime.datetime.strptime(start, '%Y-%m-%d') - datetime.datetime.strptime(end, '%Y-%m-%d')) for start, end in zip(df["start"], df["end"])]
print df

        start         end  delta
0  2000-01-10  1970-04-29  29Y9m

Answer 3

A much simpler way is to use date_range function and calculate length of the same

startdt=pd.to_datetime('2017-01-01')
enddt = pd.to_datetime('2018-01-01')
len(pd.date_range(start=startdt,end=enddt,freq='M'))

Answer 4

You can try the following function to calculate the difference -

def yearmonthdiff(row):
    s = row['start']
    e = row['end']
    y = s.year - e.year
    m = s.month - e.month
    d = s.day - e.day
    if m < 0:
        y = y - 1
        m = m + 12
    if m == 0:
        if d < 0:
            m = m -1
        elif d == 0:
            s1 = s.hour*3600 + s.minute*60 + s.second
            s2 = e.hour*3600 + e.minut*60 + e.second
            if s1 < s2:
                m = m - 1
    return '{}y{}m'.format(y,m)

Where row is the dataframe row . I am assuming your start and end columns are datetime objects. Then you can use DataFrame.apply() function to apply it to each row.

df

Out[92]:
                       start                        end
0 2000-01-10 00:00:00.000000 1970-04-29 00:00:00.000000
1 2015-07-18 17:54:59.070381 2014-01-11 17:55:10.053381

df['diff'] = df.apply(yearmonthdiff, axis=1)

In [97]: df
Out[97]:
                       start                        end   diff
0 2000-01-10 00:00:00.000000 1970-04-29 00:00:00.000000  29y9m
1 2015-07-18 17:54:59.070381 2014-01-11 17:55:10.053381   1y6m

Answer 5

Similar to @DeepSpace's answer, here's a SAS-like implementation:

import pandas as pd
from dateutil import relativedelta

def intck_month( start, end ):
    rd = relativedelta.relativedelta( pd.to_datetime( end ), pd.to_datetime( start ) )
    return rd.years, rd.months

Usage:

>> years, months = intck_month('1960-01-01', '1970-03-01')
>> print(years)
10
>> print(months)
2

Answer 6

You can try by creating a new column with years in this way:

df['diff_year'] = df['diff'] / np.timedelta64(1, 'Y')