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Chapter: Project 6: Working with Time Series - Air Quality over Time
Lecture: Converting Dates to UTC in Pandas
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In this section, we're going to look at our time a little bit more and figure out where that time is.
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So here's our cleaned up data. If you look at it, it says it's a date time 64NS.
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I'm going to stick that into UTC time. And when I do that, you can see that this says UTC down here.
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Alternatively, I could convert this to a PyArrow timestamp. Turns out that using PD to date time
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doesn't give us PyArrow. It actually gives us a NumPy date time. So if we wanted to be pedantic
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about using a PyArrow time, we could. That also supports TZ localize. If you want to pull up the
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documentation for this, you can come up here and hit shift tab a few times. And this says you have
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a naive date time and you want to make it time zone aware. To be pedantic, UTC is not a time zone, but this is how we convert to UTC time.