pandas to_datetime

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df[“column”] = pd.to_datetime( df[“column”], format=“%Y-%m-%d”)

Here’s how you generally change a column’s dtype to datetime in pandas.

If you set infer_datetime_format to True, pandas will try to identify in which format your dates are written. If pandas cannot infer the datetime format correctly, you can specify the format of your date column.

Here is an example

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