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With the help of numpy.datetime64() method, we can get the date in a numpy array in a particular format i.e year-month-day by using numpy.datetime64() method.
Syntax : numpy.datetime64(date) Return : Return the date in a format 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
Example #1 : In this example we can see that by using numpy.datetime64() method, we are able to get the date in the particular format i.e yyyy-mm-dd. Python3 1=1
# import numpy
import numpy as np

# using numpy.datetime64() method
gfg = np.array(np.datetime64('2019-08-26'))

print(gfg)
Output :
array('2019-08-26', dtype='datetime64[D]')
Example #2 : Python3 1=1
# import numpy
import numpy as np

# using numpy.datetime64() method
gfg = np.array(np.datetime64('2019-08', 'D'))

print(gfg)
Output :
array('2019-08-01', dtype='datetime64[D]')

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