I have data from a pandas dataframe that I want to put in a datatable. The first field is a date. It’s formatted YYYY-MM-DD in pandas. In the dataframe it’s format is YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00. How do I get time out of the format in the dataframe? In all of the examples in the DataTable user guide dates a…

According to https://dash.plotly.com/datatable/reference , columns.format is “derived from the d3-format library specification”, which doesn’t have any date-formatting functionality. So that definitely won’t work. If you change the date column of the DataFrame into a string with the format YYYY-MM-D…

I hit all my date columns with this before populating the DataTable component: for x in ["Date Col1", "Date Col2", "Date Col3"]: if x in df.columns: df[x] = pd.to_datetime(df[x], format="%Y-%m-%d").dt.floor("d")

That doesn’t work for me unfortunately, Dash still adds the extra ‘00:00:00’.

Assuming that your column is named as “Date_Col”, you can format it before creating the data table: df.Date_Col = pd.DatetimeIndex(df.Date_Col).strftime("%Y-%m-%d") That should do it. Also refer to this documentation for further details https://dash.plot.ly/datatable/typing .

Thanks that worked! I’ll check out that documentation

Sorting doesn’t work since strftime converts to string

I haven´t yet found a ‘format’ solution in the table that allows to sort by date. Workaround: I used the index numbers of the df (sorted by datetime) as an “id” column in the table to sort by date.

Just bumping this topic. I’m not understanding how I can format a datetime column while still allowing it to be sorted correctly. Something like: columns=[{'id':'Date','name':'My Formatted Date','type': 'datetime', 'format:'???'}] But I’m not understanding what that ??? should be.

For me the way it works best is to convert the data in pandas to dt.date format: df[date_col] = df[date_col].dt.date When you move this to datatable it keeps just YYYY-MM-DD with no time and it still is a date.

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Falc December 8, 2019, 5:43pm 2

I’m also having this issue. Anyone found a fix?

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