Converting object to datetime format in python

Question

Look at the first row of my DateTime column (Below line), 

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

Right now, This Datetime column is an object and I need to convert them to DateTime format so that I can able to get my date as something like this 1998-08-11 and I will create a separate column for time.

This is the code, that I'm using to convert column to date format :

for item, frame in df['DateTime'].iteritems():

     datetime.datetime.strptime(df['DateTime'], "%a-%b-%d-%H-%M-%S-%Z-%Y")

But, in the end, I'm getting this kind of error:

TypeError: must be str, not Series

Anyone Please help me?

Thank you :)

Answer 1

You can use, pd.to_datetime(): 

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

Example:

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

It produces

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

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