How to remove seconds from datetime?

Question

I have the following date and I tried the following code,

df[\'start_date_time\'] = [\"2016-05-19 08:25:00\",\"2016-05-19 16:00:00\",\"2016-05-20 07:45:00\",\"20         


        

Answer 1

Give this a shot with:

df.index = df.index.map(lambda t: t.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'))

As written in one of the comments, the above apply to the case where the dates are not strings. If they, however, are strings, you can simply slice the last three characters from each list in the list:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'date': ["2016-05-19 08:25:00"]})

print(df['date'].map(lambda t: t[:-3]))

The above will output:

0    2016-05-19 08:25
Name: date, dtype: object