pyspark.sql.functions.date_from_unix_date

pyspark.sql.functions.date_from_unix_date(days: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]

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

New in version 3.5.0.

Parameters
daysColumn or str

the target column to work on.

Returns
Column

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

Examples

>>> df = spark.range(1)
>>> df.select(date_from_unix_date(lit(1))).show()
+----------------------+
|date_from_unix_date(1)|
+----------------------+
|            1970-01-02|
+----------------------+