convert a SAS datetime in Pandas

Question

I am using Pandas to read a Sas dataset using read_sas

There is a datetime variable in the SAS dataset, which appears

Answer 1

You will get the right date in Python by using format='sas7bdat' option in your read_sas() method. For example, I used: pd.read_sas(dataset, format='sas7bdat'), and the dates got translated correctly to python dataframe.