convert pandas string to a timestamp code example

Example 1: from string to time python dataframe

dfc['Time_of_Sail'] = pd.to_datetime(dfc['Time_of_Sail'],format= '%H:%M:%S' ).dt.time

Example 2: pandas timestamp to string

Consider the dataframe df

df = pd.DataFrame(dict(timestamp=pd.to_datetime(['2000-01-01'])))

df

   timestamp
0 2000-01-01
Use the datetime accessor dt to access the strftime method. You can pass a format string to strftime and it will return a formatted string. When used with the dt accessor you will get a series of strings.

df.timestamp.dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

0    2000-01-01
Name: timestamp, dtype: object
Visit strftime.org for a handy set of format strings.