datetime64

datetime64[ns] is a general dtype, while <M8[ns] is a specific dtype. General dtypes map to specific dtypes, but may be different from one installation of NumPy to the next. On a machine whose byte order is little endian, there is no difference between np.dtype(‘datetime64[ns]’) and np.dtype(‘<M8[ns]’): However, on a big endian machine, np.dtype(‘datetime64[ns]’) would equal np.dtype(‘>M8[ns]’). So datetime64[ns] maps to either <M8[ns] or >M8[ns] depending on the endian-ness of the … Read more