pyspark.pandas.DatetimeIndex.day_name

DatetimeIndex.day_name(locale: Optional[str] = None) → pyspark.pandas.indexes.base.Index[source]

Return the day names of the series with specified locale.

Parameters
localestr, optional

Locale determining the language in which to return the day name. Default is English locale.

Returns
Index

Index of day names.

Examples

>>> idx = ps.date_range(start='2018-01-01', freq='D', periods=3)
>>> idx.day_name()
Index(['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday'], dtype='object')