pyspark.sql.functions.unix_date

pyspark.sql.functions.unix_date(col)

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

New in version 3.5.0.

Examples

>>> spark.conf.set("spark.sql.session.timeZone", "America/Los_Angeles")
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('1970-01-02',)], ['t'])
>>> df.select(unix_date(to_date(df.t)).alias('n')).collect()
[Row(n=1)]
>>> spark.conf.unset("spark.sql.session.timeZone")