How do you convert an object to a date and time in python?

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Below is the first row of my csv DateTime column:

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Example 1: Convert datetime Object into Date
Example 2: Convert date Object into datetime
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How do I turn a object into a datetime in Python?
How do I convert a date to a timestamp in Python?
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How do I convert a string to a date and time in Python?

Mon Nov 02 20:37:10 GMT+00:00 2015

The DateTime column is currently an object and I want to convert it to datetime format so that I can get the date to appear as 2015-11-02 and I will create a separate column for the time.

The code I am using to convert the column to date time format is:

for item, frame in df['DateTime'].iteritems():
     datetime.datetime.strptime(df['DateTime'], "%a-%b-%d-%H-%M-%S-%Z-%Y")

I am getting this error:

> TypeError: must be str, not Series

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

asked Jul 12, 2016 at 16:04

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Use pd.to_datetime():

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

For example,

pd.to_datetime('Mon Nov 02 20:37:10 GMT+00:00 2015')

produces Timestamp('2015-11-02 20:37:10').

answered Jul 12, 2016 at 16:08

1

Another solution is to pass errors parameter as per below and its application

df['DateTime'] = pd.to_datetime(df['DateTime'], errors='coerce')

errors{‘ignore’, ‘raise’, ‘coerce’}, default ‘raise’

If ‘raise’, then invalid parsing will raise an exception.
If ‘coerce’, then invalid parsing will be set as NaN.
If ‘ignore’, then invalid parsing will return the input.

answered Sep 8 at 9:26

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This page shows how to transform a datetime object to a date and vice versa in the Python programming language.

The table of content is structured as follows:

Let’s do this!

Example 1: Convert datetime Object into Date

This example explains how to convert a datetime object into a date.

As a first step, we have to import the datetime module into Python:

from datetime import datetime

Next, we can create a datetime object containing the current date as shown below:

my_datetime = datetime.now()
print(my_datetime)
# 2021-11-22 16:15:07.540406

As you can see, our example date is the 22nd of November 2021 at 4:15:07 pm.

If we now want to extract only the date from this datetime object, we can use the date() function as shown in the following Python code:

my_date = datetime.date(my_datetime)
print(my_date)
# 2021-11-22

The previous Python code has created a new data object called my_date, which contains only the date of our datetime object (i.e. 2021-11-22).

Looks good!

Example 2: Convert date Object into datetime

This example explains how to combine a date and a time object into a datetime object, i.e. the other way around compared to Example 1.

Consider the following example date…

my_date2 = datetime(2022, 10, 17, 13, 27).date()
print(my_date2)
# 2022-10-17

…and the following example time:

my_time2 = datetime(2022, 10, 17, 13, 27).time()
print(my_time2)
# 13:27:00

Now, we can combine these two data object into a datetime object using the combine() function of the datetime module:

my_datetime2 = datetime.combine(my_date2, my_time2)
print(my_datetime2)
# 2022-10-17 13:27:00

The output of the previous syntax is a properly formatted datetime object in Python.

Video, Further Resources & Summary

Would you like to know more on how to convert datetime objects to dates and vice versa in Python? In this case, you should have a look at the following YouTube video of the YouTube channel of Code Remedies.

The video explains how to convert strings and numbers into the datetime format:

Furthermore, you may have a look at the other Python and datetime tutorials on this website:

Convert datetime Object to Date Only String in Python
Modify & Edit pandas DataFrames in Python
Keep Only Date Part when Using pandas.to_datetime in Python
Handling DataFrames Using the pandas Library in Python
Python Programming Tutorials

This tutorial has shown how to switch from datetime to only date and the other way around in the Python programming language. In case you have any further questions, you may leave a comment below.

This tutorial was created in collaboration with Gottumukkala Sravan Kumar. Please have a look at Gottumukkala’s author page to get more information about his academic background and the other articles he has written for Statistics Globe.

How do I turn a object into a datetime in Python?

The date column is indeed a string, which—remember—is denoted as an object type in Python. You can convert it to the datetime type with the . to_datetime() method in pandas .

How do I convert a date to a timestamp in Python?

Approach:.

import datetime is use to import the date and time modules..

After importing date time module next step is to accept date string as an input and then store it into a variable..

Then we use strptime method. ... .

We convert date and time string into a date object..

Then we use timetuple() to convert date object into tuple..

How do I convert a string to a timestamp in Python?

Import the datetime library. Use the datetime. datetime class to handle date and time combinations. Use the strptime method to convert a string datetime to a object datetime.