# xarray.core.accessor_dt.DatetimeAccessor.strftime

`DatetimeAccessor.``strftime`(date_format)

  Return an array of formatted strings specified by date_format, which supports the same string format as the python standard library. Details of the string format can be found in python string format doc

  Parameters: | date_format (str) – date format string (e.g. “%Y-%m-%d”)
  Returns: | formatted strings – Array-like of strings formatted for each element in values
  Return type: | same type as values

  Examples

      >>> rng = xr.Dataset({'time': datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 1)})
      >>> rng['time'].dt.strftime('%B %d, %Y, %r')
      <xarray.DataArray 'strftime' ()>
      array('January 01, 2000, 12:00:00 AM', dtype=object)
      """