unix_date

Returns the number of days since 1970-01-01.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see unix_date function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.unix_date(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	input column of values to convert.

Returns

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

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('1970-01-02',), ('2022-01-02',)], ['dt'])
df.select('*', dbf.unix_date(dbf.to_date('dt'))).show()