how to convert datetime to date pandas code example

Example 1: convert column in pandas to datetime

df['col'] = pd.to_datetime(df['col'])

Example 2: pandas datetime show only date

# Changing object type column to datetime
df['date_col'] = pd.to_datetime(df.date_col)

# Creating new column with just the date
df['new_date_col'] = df['date_col'].dt.date