pandas has proven very successful as a tool for working with time series data, especially in the financial data analysis space. Using the NumPy datetime64 and timedelta64 dtypes, we have consolidated a large number of features from other Python libraries like scikits.timeseries as well as created a tremendous amount of new functionality for manipulating time series data. In working with time series data, we will frequently seek to: generate sequences of fixed-frequency dates and time spans co