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Pandas to_datetime method giving incorrect year when converting Unix Timestamp

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When using to_datetime method of Pandas Dataframe to convert a Unix Timestamp to a Formatted DateTime in a column of data collected from a Data Logger I get the wrong year by 20 years. I have checked this post and many others but found no reason.

In a Pandas Dataframe Column I have a series of values which are Unix Timestamps. Using an online Epoch converter the Timestamps give the correct date and time, but using the to_datetime function in Pandas the year is 20 years out. The years should be 2024. Everything else is correct.Using the code:

df['WS_knot_TMx'] = pd.to_datetime(df['WS_knot_TMx'], unit='s')

The TimeStamp value is converted using the to_datetime method giving the result as shown below:

1073924220   2004-01-12 16:17:001073924690   2004-01-12 16:24:501073924790   2004-01-12 16:26:30

But the years are 20 years out.OK I can add 20 years like so:

df['WS_knot_TMx'] = df['WS_knot_TMx'].apply(lambda x: x - timedelta(days=365.25*20))

But this in a bit of a hack. Why is the conversion 20 years out?


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