Converting different date time formats to MM/DD/YYYY format in pandas dataframe

Question

I have a date column in a pandas.DataFrame in various date time formats and stored as list object, like the following:

            date
1    [May 23rd, 2011]         


        

Answer 1

It would be better if you use this it'll give you the date format in MM-DD-YYYY the you can apply strftime:

df['Date_ColumnName'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date_ColumnName'], dayfirst = False, yearfirst = False)