diff --git a/src/akimbo/cudf.py b/src/akimbo/cudf.py
index 633ae4d..6c2bb8a 100644
--- a/src/akimbo/cudf.py
+++ b/src/akimbo/cudf.py
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
 
 import awkward as ak
 import cudf
-from cudf import DataFrame, Series
+from cudf import DataFrame, Series, _lib as libcudf
 from cudf.core.column.string import StringMethods
+from cudf.core.column.datetime import DatetimeColumn
 
 from akimbo.ak_from_cudf import cudf_to_awkward as from_cudf
 from akimbo.mixin import Accessor
+from akimbo.datetimes import DatetimeAccessor, match as match_t
 from akimbo.strings import StringAccessor
-from akimbo.apply_tree import dec
+from akimbo.apply_tree import dec, leaf
 
 
 def match_string(arr):
@@ -26,23 +28,58 @@ def encode(self, encoding: str = "utf-8"):
         raise NotImplementedError("cudf does not support bytearray type")
 
 
+def dec_cu(op, match=match_string):
+
+    @functools.wraps(op)
+    def f(lay, **kwargs):
+        # op(column, ...)->column
+        col = op(lay._to_cudf(cudf, None, len(lay)), **kwargs)
+        return from_cudf(cudf.Series(col)).layout
+
+    return dec(func=f, match=match, inmode="ak")
+
+
 for meth in dir(StringMethods):
     if meth.startswith("_"):
         continue
 
     @functools.wraps(getattr(StringMethods, meth))
-    def f(lay, *args, method=meth, **kwargs):
-        if not match_string(lay):
-            return
-
-        # unnecessary round-tripping, and repeating logic from `dec`?
-        args = args or kwargs.pop("args", ())
-        col = getattr(StringMethods(cudf.Series(lay._to_cudf(cudf, None, len(lay)))), method)(*args, **kwargs)
+    def f(lay, method=meth, **kwargs):
+        # this is different from dec_cu, because we need to instantiate StringMethods
+        # before getting the method from it
+        col = getattr(StringMethods(cudf.Series(lay._to_cudf(cudf, None, len(lay)))), method)(**kwargs)
         return from_cudf(col).layout
 
     setattr(CudfStringAccessor, meth, dec(func=f, match=match_string, inmode="ak"))
 
 
+class CudfDatetimeAccessor(DatetimeAccessor):
+
+    ...
+
+
+for meth in dir(DatetimeColumn):
+    if meth.startswith("_"):
+        continue
+
+    @functools.wraps(getattr(DatetimeColumn, meth))
+    def f(lay, method=meth, **kwargs):
+        # this is different from dec_cu, because we need to instantiate StringMethods
+        # before getting the method from it
+        m = getattr(lay._to_cudf(cudf, None, len(lay)), method)
+        if callable(m):
+            col = m(**kwargs)
+        else:
+            # attributes giving components
+            col = m
+        return from_cudf(cudf.Series(col)).layout
+
+    if isinstance(getattr(DatetimeColumn, meth), property):
+        setattr(CudfDatetimeAccessor, meth, property(dec(func=f, match=match_t, inmode="ak")))
+    else:
+        setattr(CudfDatetimeAccessor, meth, dec(func=f, match=match_t, inmode="ak"))
+
+
 class CudfAwkwardAccessor(Accessor):
     series_type = Series
     dataframe_type = DataFrame
@@ -51,6 +88,8 @@ class CudfAwkwardAccessor(Accessor):
     def _to_output(cls, arr):
         if isinstance(arr, ak.Array):
             return ak.to_cudf(arr)
+        elif isinstance(arr, ak.contents.Content):
+            return arr._to_cudf(cudf, None, len(arr))
         return arr
 
     @classmethod
@@ -67,11 +106,13 @@ def str(self):
         # need to find string ops within cudf
         return CudfStringAccessor(self)
 
+    cast = dec_cu(libcudf.unary.cast, match=leaf)
+
     @property
     def dt(self):
         """Nested datetime operations"""
         # need to find datetime ops within cudf
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        return CudfDatetimeAccessor(self)
 
     def apply(self, fn: Callable, *args, **kwargs):
         if "CPUDispatcher" in str(fn):
diff --git a/src/akimbo/io.py b/src/akimbo/io.py
index 8fa36a3..a7745ca 100644
--- a/src/akimbo/io.py
+++ b/src/akimbo/io.py
@@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ def ak_to_series(ds, backend="pandas", extract=True):
 
         # TODO: actually don't use this, use dask-awkward, or dask.dataframe
         s = akimbo.polars.PolarsAwkwardAccessor._to_output(ds)
+    elif backend == "cudf":
+        import akimbo.cudf
+
+        s = akimbo.cudf.CudfAwkwardAccessor._to_output(ds)
     else:
         raise ValueError("Backend must be in {'pandas', 'polars', 'dask'}")
-    if extract:
+    if extract and ds.fields:
         return s.ak.unmerge()
     return s
 
diff --git a/tests/test_cudf.py b/tests/test_cudf.py
index 6f65d28..b15b5c8 100644
--- a/tests/test_cudf.py
+++ b/tests/test_cudf.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import datetime
+
 import pytest
 
 import pyarrow as pa
@@ -5,6 +7,7 @@
 
 pytest.importorskip("akimbo.cudf")
 
+import akimbo.io
 import cudf
 
 
@@ -37,3 +40,28 @@ def test_string_methods():
     # non-str output
     s2 = series.ak.str.len()
     assert s2.ak.to_list() == [{"s": [3, 2], "i": [0]}, {"s": [3, 2], "i": [2]}]
+
+
+def test_cast():
+    s = cudf.Series([0, 1, 2])
+    # shows that cast to timestamp needs to be two-step in cudf
+    s2 = s.ak.cast('m8[s]').ak.cast('M8[s]')
+    out = s2.ak.to_list()
+    assert out == [
+        datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0),
+        datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1),
+        datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2)
+    ]
+
+
+def test_times():
+    data = [
+        datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0),
+        datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1),
+        None,
+        datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2)
+    ]
+    arr = ak.Array([[data], [], [data]])
+    s = akimbo.io.ak_to_series(arr, "cudf")
+    s2 = s.ak.dt.second
+    assert s2.ak.to_list() == [[[0, 1, None, 2]], [], [[0, 1, None, 2]]]