Specify a 'datetime' column when converting from (Geo)DataFrame to FeatureCollection

[janpisl]

Description

When I convert from (Geo)DataFrame that contains a column with date to FeatureCollection, I cannot filter by date because the date is only stored in properties of the FeatureCollection.

Source code

gdf_radd = gpd.read_file('RADD_alerts.gpkg')
alerts_subset = gdf_radd.query(''20210101 < date < 2021-03-03')
#alerts subset returns a non-empty GeoDataFrame containing rows within selected dates

ee_radd = geemap.geopandas_to_ee(gdf_radd)
alerts_subset_ee = ee_radd.filterDate(ee.Date('2021-01-01'), ee.Date('2021-03-03'))
#alerts_subset_ee is empty. it is not possible to filter by date

Desired behaviour

#I would be able to specify a column that contains date/datetime when converting from (Geo)DataFrame to GEE FeatureCollection
ee_radd = geemap.geopandas_to_ee(gdf_radd, datetime=gdf_radd.date)

Possible sketch of a solution

def set_date(feature):
    date = feature.get('date').getInfo()
    year, month, day = [int(i) for i in date.split()[0].split('/')]
    date_mls = ee.Date.fromYMD(year, month, day).millis()
    feature = feature.set("system:time_start", date_mls)
    return feature

ee_radd_with_dates = ee_radd.map(set_date)

[giswqs]

This feature has been implemented.

gdf_to_ee(gdf, geodesic=True, date=None, date_format='YYYY-MM-dd')

[janpisl]

Amazing! Thank you!