Astype datetime

Python format datetime The way date and time is represented may be different in different places, organizations etc. It’s more common to use mm/dd/yyyy in the US, whereas dd/mm/yyyy is more common in the UK. Python has strftime() and strptime() methods to handle this.

No, there is no way in pandas to automatically recognize date columns .

sort_values(by=column_name) to sort pandas. DataFrame by the contents of a column named column_name . Before doing this, the data in the column must be converted to datetime if it is in another format using pandas. to_datetime(arg) with arg as the column of dates.