px.parse_time

Parse the various time formats into a unified format.

This function can unify all possible time formats into a single consistent type. Useful for doing calculations on these values in a way that is agnostic to their format.

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
time	string, int, time	The time as a string, int, or px.Time.

Returns

px.Time: The unix timestamp in nanoseconds.

Examples

## As a relative time string.
# time = now -300000000000
time = px.parse_time("-5m")
# time = now + 300000000000
time = px.parse_time("5m")
# Takes in px.Time
time = px.parse_time(px.strptime("2020-03-12 19:39:59 -0200", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z"))
# Takes in int
time = px.parse_time(10)

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