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# pandas.to_timedelta

`pandas.``to_timedelta`(arg, box=True, unit='ns')

  Convert argument to timedelta

  Parameters : | arg : string, timedelta, array of strings (with possible NAs) box : boolean, default True If True returns a Series of the results, if False returns ndarray of values unit : unit of the arg (D,h,m,s,ms,us,ns) denote the unit, which is an integer/float number
  Returns : | ret : timedelta64/arrays of timedelta64 if parsing succeeded

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