time_to_seconds

Extracts seconds from TIME value (returns DECIMAL to preserve fractional seconds).

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.time_to_seconds(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or column name	TIME value to convert.

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.sql("SELECT TIME'14:30:00.5' as time")
df.select(dbf.time_to_seconds('time')).show()

+---------------------+
|time_to_seconds(time)|
+---------------------+
|         52200.500000|
+---------------------+