xarray.CFTimeIndex.strftime

CFTimeIndex.strftime(self, date_format)

Return an Index of formatted strings specified by date_format, which supports the same string format as the python standard library. Details of the string format can be found in python string format doc

Parameters

date_format (str) – Date format string (e.g. “%Y-%m-%d”)

Returns

Index of formatted strings

Return type

pandas.Index

Examples

>>> rng = xr.cftime_range(
...     start="2000", periods=5, freq="2MS", calendar="noleap"
... )
>>> rng.strftime("%B %d, %Y, %r")
Index(['January 01, 2000, 12:00:00 AM', 'March 01, 2000, 12:00:00 AM',
       'May 01, 2000, 12:00:00 AM', 'July 01, 2000, 12:00:00 AM',
       'September 01, 2000, 12:00:00 AM'],
      dtype='object')