Keep only date part when using pandas.to_datetime

Since version 0.15.0 this can now be easily done using .dt to access just the date component:

df['just_date'] = df['dates'].dt.date

The above returns a datetime.date dtype, if you want to have a datetime64 then you can just normalize the time component to midnight so it sets all the values to 00:00:00:

df['normalised_date'] = df['dates'].dt.normalize()

This keeps the dtype as datetime64, but the display shows just the date value.

• pandas: .dt accessor
• pandas.Series.dt