dataframe astype datetime code example

Example 1: convert column to datetime format python

df['Dates'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Dates'], format='%y%m%d') 

df['Date'] = df['Date'].astype('datetime64[ns]')

dtype = pd.SparseDtype(np.dtype('datetime64[ns]'))
series = pd.Series(df.date, dtype=dtype)
df['date']=np.array(series)

Example 2: convert a number column into datetime pandas

# convert the 'Date' column to datetime format
df['Date']= pd.to_datetime(df['Date'])
 
# Check the format of 'Date' column
df.info()