Pandas Convert Timestamp Column to Datetime

Question

Given the following data frame and necessary wrangling:

import pandas as pd
df=pd.DataFrame({\'A\':[\'a\',\'b\',\'c\'],
        \'dates\':[\'2015-08-31 00:00         


        

Answer 1

You can convert directly using apply:

df.dates = df.dates.apply(lambda x: x.date())

This makes an in-place conversion of the previous 'dates' (as a timestamp) to the truncated 'datetime' only portion