Remove type conversion for _stride_lagged_features and _stride_future…

[hxyue1]

…_time_features_for_forecasts

🔬 Background

This fixes #1317.

🔮 Key changes

I removed the datetime conversions for _stride_time_features_for_forecasts and _stride_future_time_features_for_forecasts.

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• I have performed a self-review of my own code.
• I have commented my code, added docstrings and data types to function definitions.
• I have added pytests to check whether my feature / fix works.

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[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #1331 (24e34ef) into main (24fd354) will increase coverage by 0.02%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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+ Coverage   89.86%   89.88%   +0.02%     
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  Files          38       38              
  Lines        5109     5103       -6     
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- Hits         4591     4587       -4     
+ Misses        518      516       -2     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
neuralprophet/time_dataset.py	95.43% <100.00%> (+0.55%)	⬆️

[leoniewgnr]

LGTM, ready to be merged if tests pass

[github-actions]

Model Benchmark

Benchmark	Metric	main	current	diff
PeytonManning	MAE_val	0.58159	0.58159	0.0%	✅
PeytonManning	RMSE_val	0.72216	0.72216	0.0%	✅
PeytonManning	Loss_val	0.01239	0.01239	0.0%	✅
PeytonManning	MAE	0.41671	0.41671	0.0%	✅
PeytonManning	RMSE	0.55961	0.55961	0.0%	✅
PeytonManning	Loss	0.00612	0.00612	0.0%	✅
PeytonManning	time	16.2654	14.81	-8.95%	🎉
YosemiteTemps	MAE_val	1.3442	1.3442	0.0%	✅
YosemiteTemps	RMSE_val	2.00245	2.00245	0.0%	✅
YosemiteTemps	Loss_val	0.00077	0.00077	0.0%	✅
YosemiteTemps	MAE	1.3192	1.3192	0.0%	✅
YosemiteTemps	RMSE	2.13518	2.13518	0.0%	✅
YosemiteTemps	Loss	0.00064	0.00064	0.0%	✅
YosemiteTemps	time	74.683	71.47	-4.3%	✅
AirPassengers	MAE_val	13.0626	13.0626	0.0%	✅
AirPassengers	RMSE_val	15.9453	15.9453	0.0%	✅
AirPassengers	Loss_val	0.00131	0.00131	0.0%	✅
AirPassengers	MAE	9.88156	9.88156	0.0%	✅
AirPassengers	RMSE	11.7354	11.7354	0.0%	✅
AirPassengers	Loss	0.00052	0.00052	0.0%	✅
AirPassengers	time	6.70337	6.28	-6.32%	🎉

Model training plots

Model Training

PeytonManning

YosemiteTemps

AirPassengers