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xarray always converts "datetime64" types to nanoseconds.
xarray also silently does nothing when calling .astype('datetime64[ms]') on an datetime64 type.
What did you expect to happen?
I would expect the same behavior as in numpy (respect units, as shown in the reproducer). Or at least raise an error, when calling astype with a different unit.
Minimal Complete Verifiable Example
importnumpyasnpimportxarrayasxa# As expected.time_array=np.array(["2000-01-01"]).astype('datetime64[ms]')
print(time_array.dtype) # datetime64[ms]print(time_array.astype('datetime64[s]').dtype) # datetime64[s]# Always end up with "ns".time_data_array=xa.DataArray(data=time_array, dims=("time"))
print(time_data_array.dtype) # datetime64[ns]print(time_data_array.astype('datetime64[s]').dtype) # datetime64[ns]
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### Environment
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commit: None
python: 3.7.13 (default, Apr 24 2022, 01:04:09)
[GCC 7.5.0]
python-bits: 64
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libnetcdf: 4.7.4
xarray: 0.18.2
pandas: 1.3.5
numpy: 1.21.6
scipy: 1.4.1
netCDF4: 1.5.8
pydap: None
h5netcdf: None
h5py: 3.1.0
Nio: None
zarr: None
cftime: 1.6.0
nc_time_axis: None
PseudoNetCDF: None
rasterio: None
cfgrib: None
iris: None
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dask: 2.12.0
distributed: 1.25.3
matplotlib: 3.2.2
cartopy: None
seaborn: 0.11.2
numbagg: None
pint: None
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conda: None
pytest: 3.6.4
IPython: 5.5.0
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What happened?
xarray
always converts "datetime64" types to nanoseconds.xarray
also silently does nothing when calling.astype('datetime64[ms]')
on andatetime64
type.What did you expect to happen?
I would expect the same behavior as in numpy (respect units, as shown in the reproducer). Or at least raise an error, when calling
astype
with a different unit.Minimal Complete Verifiable Example
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: