return datetime format python code example

Example 1: python datetime string

import datetime

today = datetime.datetime.now()
date_time = today.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
print("date and time:",date_time)

Example 2: date object into date format python

df['date_column'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date_column'],format='%Y%m%d')