The datetime variables can take dates, time, or date and time as values. The datetime variables are not used in their raw format to build machine learning algorithms. Instead, we create additional features from them, and, in fact, we can enrich the dataset dramatically by extracting information from the date and time.
The pandas Python library contains a lot of capabilities for working with date and time. But to access this functionality, the variables should be cast in a data type that supports these operations, such as datetime or timedelta. Often, the datetime variables are cast as objects, particularly when the data is loaded from a CSV file. Pandas' dt, which is the accessor object to the datetime properties of a pandas Series, works only with datetime data types; therefore, to extract date...