Pandas should accept ISO 8601 duration · Issue #11375 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

Hello,

ISO 8601 defines duration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations

see also usage in XML Schema http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#d0e11648

Duration can't be defined as timedelta (or timedelta64) because

• months don't always have 30 days
• years don't always have 365 days

It will be nice if Pandas could accept ISO 8601 duration.

We should probably use pd.tseries.offsets.DateOffset like

pd.tseries.offsets.DateOffset(years=2, months=6, days=1)

Kind regards