Join/Merge two pandas dataframes and filling - python

I have two pandas dataframes both holding irregular timeseries data.
I want merge/join the two frames by time.
I also want to forward fill the other columns of frame2 for any "new" rows that were added through the joining process. How can I do this?
I have tried:
df = pd.merge(df1, df2, on="DateTime")
but this just leave a frame with matching timestamp rows.
I would be grateful for any ideas!

Try this. The how='left' will have the merge keep all records of df1, and the fillna will populate missing values.
df = pd.merge(df1, df2, on='DateTime', how='left').fillna(method='ffill')

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