date_from_unix_date

Create date from the number of days since 1970-01-01.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see date_from_unix_date function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.date_from_unix_date(days=<days>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
days	pyspark.sql.Column or str	The target column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: the date from the number of days since 1970-01-01.

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
spark.range(4).select('*', dbf.date_from_unix_date('id')).show()