date2num(d)

Notes

The Gregorian calendar is assumed; this is not universal practice. For details see the module docstring.

Parameters

d : `datetime.datetime` or `numpy.datetime64` or sequences of these

Returns

float or sequence of floats

Number of days since the epoch. See .get_epoch for the epoch, which can be changed by date.epoch or .set_epoch . If the epoch is "1970-01-01T00:00:00" (default) then noon Jan 1 1970 ("1970-01-01T12:00:00") returns 0.5.

Convert datetime objects to Matplotlib dates.

Examples

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