Polars Date and Datetime Manipulation

In both Dataframe API and SQL where possible.

This code base shows examples of doing a number of date and datetime manipulations in Polars (Python).

The full blog post is here https://www.confessionsofadataguy.com/date-and-datetime-manipulation-in-polar/

• convert a string to a date

• convert a string to a datetime

• convert a date or datetime back to a string

• pull out year, month, and day from a date or datetime object.

• pull the quarter out of a date or datetime object.

• get the diff between two date or datetime objects.

• Add an arbitrary number of days to a date or datetime object.

• Run the code ...

• Build Docker image first docker build . --tag=polarsdates

• Run the code docker-compose up test