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tdhopper opened this issue Jun 15, 2016 · 1 comment
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to_datetime can't handle int16 or int8 #13451

tdhopper opened this issue Jun 15, 2016 · 1 comment
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Bug Datetime Datetime data dtype Dtype Conversions Unexpected or buggy dtype conversions
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@tdhopper
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Code sample

df = pd.DataFrame({'year': [2015, 2016],
                       'month': [2, 3],
                       'day': [4, 5]})
pd.to_datetime(df.astype('int16'))

Expected Output

0   2015-02-04
1   2016-03-05
dtype: datetime64[ns]

output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
commit: None
python: 2.7.11.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Darwin
OS-release: 15.5.0
machine: x86_64
processor: i386
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.18.1
nose: 1.3.7
pip: 8.1.1
setuptools: 20.3
Cython: 0.23.4
numpy: 1.10.4
scipy: 0.17.0
statsmodels: 0.6.1
xarray: None
IPython: 4.1.2
sphinx: 1.3.5
patsy: 0.4.0
dateutil: 2.5.1
pytz: 2016.2
blosc: None
bottleneck: 1.0.0
tables: 3.2.2
numexpr: 2.5
matplotlib: 1.5.1
openpyxl: 2.3.2
xlrd: 0.9.4
xlwt: 1.0.0
xlsxwriter: 0.8.4
lxml: 3.6.0
bs4: 4.4.1
html5lib: None
httplib2: None
apiclient: None
sqlalchemy: 1.0.12
pymysql: None
psycopg2: 2.6.1 (dt dec pq3 ext)
jinja2: 2.8
boto: 2.39.0
pandas_datareader: None```
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jreback commented Jun 15, 2016

yeah I think these overflow (as we are multiplying by a factor relative to position). should convert first (use .astype('int64', copy=False))

pull-requests welcome!

@jreback jreback added Bug Datetime Datetime data dtype Dtype Conversions Unexpected or buggy dtype conversions Difficulty Novice labels Jun 15, 2016
@jreback jreback added this to the Next Major Release milestone Jun 15, 2016
@jreback jreback modified the milestones: 0.18.2, Next Major Release Jun 16, 2016
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