How to change the datetime format in pandas

Question

My dataframe has a DOB column (example format 1/1/2016) which by default gets converted to pandas dtype \'object\': DOB object

Answer 1

Below code changes to 'datetime' type and also formats in the given format string. Works well!

df['DOB']=pd.to_datetime(df['DOB'].dt.strftime('%m/%d/%Y'))