How do I convert dates in a Pandas data frame to a 'date' data type?

Question

I have a Pandas data frame, one of the column contains date strings in the format YYYY-MM-DD

For e.g. \'2013-10-28\'

At the moment th

Answer 1

 #   Column          Non-Null Count   Dtype         
---  ------          --------------   -----         
 0   startDay        110526 non-null  object
 1   endDay          110526 non-null  object

import pandas as pd

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

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

 #   Column          Non-Null Count   Dtype         
---  ------          --------------   -----         
 0   startDay        110526 non-null  datetime64[ns]
 1   endDay          110526 non-null  datetime64[ns]