Strip timezone info in pandas

Question

I have been struggling with removing the time zone info from a column in a pandas dataframe. I have checked the following question, but it does not work for me:

Can

Answer 1

If it is always the last 6 characters that you want to ignore, you may simply slice your current string:

>>> '2015-12-01 00:00:00-06:00'[0:-6]
'2015-12-01 00:00:00'