pyspark.sql.functions.datediff¶

pyspark.sql.functions.datediff(end: ColumnOrName, start: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]¶

Returns the number of days from start to end.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

endColumn or str: to date column to work on.
startColumn or str: from date column to work on.

Returns

Column: difference in days between two dates.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('2015-04-08','2015-05-10')], ['d1', 'd2'])
>>> df.select(datediff(df.d2, df.d1).alias('diff')).collect()
[Row(diff=32)]

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